Papua Regional Police Chief Calls On Citizens To Not Enter Areas Prone to KKB

Papua Regional Police Chief Calls On Citizens To Not Enter Areas Prone to KKB

Papua Regional Police Chief Inspector General Paulus Waterpauw reminded people in the Mimika Regency area not to enter the PT. Freeport Indonesia, especially around the City of Kuala Kencana, which in recent times has been the target of terrorist shootings by the KKB Armed Criminal Group.

Waterpauw asserted that the area around Kuala Kencana was now fully controlled by the security forces after the KKB had previously entered the area and carried out a terror shooting at the PTFI office in Kuala Kencana which killed a worker from New Zealand.

"We strongly plead with the general public not to enter Kuala Kencana's surroundings. We have mastered that area from the group that yesterday entered the Kuala Kencana OB (office building) I," said Waterpauw.

Waterpauw appreciated the attitude of the victim's family who sincerely accepted the incident. "In principle, they understand enough because previously there have been appeals from several prominent figures and tribal chiefs in Kwamki Lama and surrounding areas that the KKB facing us security forces have conveyed the war zone from Tembagapura to Timika City, especially in Kuala Kencana. So, actually there has been an invitation so that people do not enter the area, "said Waterpauw.

With the situation and conditions in which the forest area around Kuala Kencana that had been entered by the KKB, it was difficult for the authorities to be able to distinguish which members of the KKB from ordinary people. The police chief hopes that events like this will not happen again in the future.

"Of course an investigation into this incident is still being carried out to find out the actual conditions occurring, whether the presence of these children at Mile 34 times is just to find fish or what," said Waterpauw.

Two young men from Kwamki Lama Timika, Eden Armando Debari (20) and Ronny Wandik (23), were victims of shootings by TNI Task Force officers YR 712 and YR 900 when conducting a crackdown operation on KKB at Mile 34, PTFI area, Timika on Monday (13 / 4) evening ...

At that time the two young men were looking for fish by diving (in the local language called molo) by carrying a spear or arrow at a time around Mile 34. The bodies of both had been buried in TPU Jile Yale on Wednesday afternoon.