The Witness and Victim Defense Agency (LPSK) has expressed its preparedness to act on a request for witness protection following the shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani in Intan Jaya, Papua, in September.
The demand was submitted by the main board of the Indonesian Evangelical Christian Church (GKII) on behalf of Yeremia’s family and witnesses of the occurrence, LPSK deputy chairman Edwin Partogi Pasaribu stated.
” We have actually received the request, and we will follow up on it in accordance with the law,” he stated in a statement on Wednesday.
The company will examine witness testaments that were submitted to a government-sanctioned joint fact-finding team, in addition to those that were not submitted to the team.
7 civilian witnesses supplied essential info during the fact-finding team’s field examination in Intan Jaya, according to Edwin, who is also part of the team.
” It is tough to discover a safe location there, which ought to be kept in mind when looking at security for the witnesses,” he said, while requesting assistance from both the public and Indonesian security forces in supplying safety for the witnesses.
The LPSK is likewise happy to secure any justice collaborators, as stipulated in the 2014 law on the protection of witnesses and victims.
” Apart from witnesses, we are wishing to reveal this case with the help of justice collaborators,” Edwin said.
The joint fact-finding team ended a 14- day field investigation of the shooting case and offered its findings to the Workplace of the Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister on Oct.14 No suspects were named in the report.
The team has suggested that security forces may have been involved in the shooting, although it also mentioned there was a possibility that a third party lagged it.
Four members of Yeremia’s family, including his partner, signed a police interrogation report, which made them witnesses in the event.
The fact-finding group received permission from Yeremia’s family to have the body autopsied for the ongoing examination.
According to the Indonesian Communion of Churches, the GKII and regional media in Papua, Yeremia was presumably shot by Indonesian Army (TNI) personnel on his method to his pig pen on Sept. 19, at the exact same time when a military operation reportedly happened.
The TNI has rejected the accusation, rather saying that Yeremia was shot by an armed group.
