The label is just directed at those committing criminal offenses, not members of Papuan neighborhoods
Jayapura, Papua – The Indonesian government has officially identified members of armed Papuan groups as terrorists owing to their acts of fear and criminal activities against innocent civilians, a top policeman stated.
” The label is simply directed at those dedicating criminal activities, not members of Papuan neighborhoods,” Chief of the National Police’s Security Intelligence Company Commissioner General Paulus Waterpauw said.
Members of the armed groups have often committed acts of violence versus community members. They do not simply require the people to give them food and funds. The well-known armed terrorists also set their houses on fire.
” We need to enforce law versus the wrongdoers,” he said in a press declaration that ANTARA estimated in Jakarta on Sunday.
The police operations against these armed Papuan terrorists is a should because Indonesia is a state based upon the rule of law, he stated.
The Papua dispute ought to be perceived from a police perspective because whoever must meet Indonesia’s guidelines of law, he added.
Over the past couple of years, armed Papuan groups have actually often used hit-and-run strategies versus Indonesian security personnel and installed acts of horror versus civilians in the districts of Intan Jaya, Nduga, and Puncak to trigger a sense of worry among the people.
The recent targets of such acts of fear consisted of building employees, motorbike taxi (ojek) motorists, teachers, trainees, street food suppliers, and also civilian aircraft.
On December 2, 2018, a group of armed Papuan rebels brutally killed 31 workers from PT Istaka Karya participated in the building and construction of the Trans Papua job in Kali Yigi and Kali Aurak in Yigi Sub-district, Nduga District.
On the exact same day, armed enemies likewise eliminated a soldier, recognized as Handoko, and injured two other security workers, Sugeng and Wahyu.
Such acts of violence have actually continued this year. On January 6, 2021, at least 10 armed separatist terrorists vandalized and torched a Quest Kodiak airplane coming from Mission Air travel Fellowship (MAF) on the Pagamba town airstrip.
On February 8, 2021, a 32- year-old male was contended close quarters in Bilogai Village, Sugapa Sub-district.
The victim, recognized by his initials as RNR, continual gunshot wounds on the face and ideal shoulder and was taken to the Timika Public Health Center in Mimika District on February 9.
In a different occurrence on February 9, 6 armed Papuans fatally stabbed a motorcycle taxi (ojek) driver.
A bike cabby was shot dead by an unknown shooter in Papua.
On April 8, 2021, several armed Papuan rebels opened fire at a kiosk in Julukoma Village, Beoga Sub-district, Puncak District.
The shooting led to the death of a Beoga public grade school instructor, identified as Oktovianus Rayo.
After eliminating Rayo, the armed attackers torched three classrooms at the Beoga public secondary school.
On April 9, 2021, armed separatists apparently fatally shot another teacher, Yonatan Randen, on the chest.
Two days later on, 9 classrooms at the Beoga public junior high were set ablaze by an armed group.
Barely 4 days later, Ali Mama, a student of the Ilaga public secondary school in Beoga Sub-district, was extremely eliminated by armed enemies.
On April 25, 2021, Papuan separatists, running in Beoga, ambushed State Intelligence Agency (Papua) Chief I Gusti Putu Danny Karya Nugraha and a number of security personnel during their see to Dambet Village.
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