In an effort to tighten security in Papua, the National Police are going to dispatch 170 police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel on Tuesday night, says a top official.
“The Brimob personnel will secure vital places,” said National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam in his office as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
Anton said that all personnel would be under Papua Police chief Ins. Gen. Bigman Lumban Tobing’s command.
Anton hoped that the additional police officers would create a safer situation in Papua.
Lack of security has been a major issue in Papua recently.
Two weeks ago, two workers of giant mining company PT Freeport Indonesia were shot dead by the police during a demonstration outside the company’s mining site.
Following the break-up by security forces of the third Papuan People’s Congress last week, six demonstrators were killed.
The latest incident was the murder of Mulia police chief Adj. Comr. Dominggus Oktovianus Awes who was shot dead on Monday.
The police have been watching the alleged hideout of Dominggus’ killers, Anton said, but “(the police) have not yet raided it”.
Comments (2)
Lewis Prai | Wed, 26/10/2011 - 06:10am
What the hell is going on with police hierarchy ? Why sending more personnels to Papua ? Papuans are already in the state of fear and anxiety and you are making the situation even worse. They government should be withdrawing the security force in Papua and not depositing more troops into Papua.This is to just show that government of SBY lack credible leadership and direction to direct this country. West Papua is taking the same road as East Timor if the government of SBY does not take the matter seriously. We can't solve the problem in Papua with a barrel of a gun but there needs to be a concrete and genuine dialogue between key OPM and WPNCL (West Papua National Coalition for Liberation) leaders based abroad and in Papua. Otherwise the problems in Papua will deepen further. Mind you, international communities are now monitoring the situation in West Papua.
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OrangKampung GL | Wed, 26/10/2011 - 02:10am
Very sad to see Indonesians killing other Indonesians; for the benefit of Freeport, who mysteriously suddenly owns 90.64% of Grasberg, the largest Gold Mine in the world; while host country Indonesia only own 9.36%; please copy/click this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasberg_mine
Plus in the future inherit Telaga Beracun se lama2 nya. See my previous comments regarding Papua in Jakarta Post.
Indonesia should learn from experiences of Saudi Aramco; link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco
Like in Papua, in its early days CASOC treated the Saudis very badly; however in:
1980 Saudi Government acquires 100 percent participation interest in Aramco, purchasing almost all of the company's assets
Things change completely for the Saudi’s since then: They become very wealthy.
Indonesia could do the same; EXPERTS could be obtained from the open market (I was one of them).
OrangKampung GL