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News Focus: GOVT URGED TO FORM INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION TEAM ON PAPUA SHOOTINGS
By Eliswan Azly
Jakarta, July 16 (ANTARA) - Amid an ongoing search for snipers allegedly involved in the shooting of two employees of PT. Freeport Indonesia and one policeman in Papua, the government has been urged to set up an independent investigative team on the shooting incidents.
Let an independent investigation uncover the mastery behind the deadly shootings in the PT. Freeport area which happened in July 11,12 and 13, 2009, in Tembagapura, Papua Presidium Council (PDP) Secretary General Taha M Alhamid said in Jayapura on Thursday
An independent investigation should be made to solve the riddle of the three shootings last Saturday, Sunday, and Monday that had claimed the lives of two civilians and a policeman.
"We have to support the formation of an independent investigative team to find what and who were behind the shooting of two civilians and a policeman in the Freeport area," Alhamid said.
Since Saturday (July 11), three persons, including one worker of the US gold and copper mining company PT Freeport, had been killed in Papua.
Drew Nicholas Grant, an Australian national who worked for PT Freeport, was shot dead by unknown gunmen at Mile-53 on Saturday (July 11). Drew Grant was shot in the chest and neck.
On Sunday (July 12), there were two armed attacks respectively at Mile 51 and Mile 2, which killed Markus Rante Allo, a security guard of PT Freeport.
Then on Monday (July 13), Brigadier I Marson, a Papua police officer, was found dead at mile 52 road connecting Timika and Tembagapura, Mimika District, Papua Province, after reportedly gone missing earlier.
According to Alhamid, the independent investigation team could be made up of government and security officials, activists, and members of the public who have a strong commitment to uncovering the truth and facts behind the bloody incidents in Papua and to announcing the findings transparently to the public.
But he deplored statements made by some quarters cesuggesting that a certain party was involved in the incidents.
"It is a speculation that can lead to suspicion between one party and another because the allegation minght be wrong," Alhami said.
Commenting on the incidents, Ramses Wally, the chief of a tribe living in Babrongko kampong in Jayapura, on Wednesday opined that the root causes in Mimika district had to be investigated in order to prevent similar incidents from happening again in the future.
Shooting incidents had often occurred in the concession area of US gold and copper mining company PTFI. Therefore, the root causes of the happenings must be found out, .
Indonesian security personnel should find the root causes and the perpetrators of the shootings by involving foreign intelligence services, said Ramses who is also chairman of the Papua chapter of the United and Unitary Indonesia Party (KPKI).
Foreign involvement was necessary because several countries had also invested in the gold and and copper mining company, he said.
He said one should not jump to the conclusion that the shootings were the work of the OPM (Free Papua Organization), a separatist group led by Kelik Kwalik, because there might be several interests behind the bloody incidents.
He called on all parties to support the investigation being carried out by Indonesian security personnel.
Since Saturday (July 11), three persons, including one worker of US gold and copper mining company PT Freeport, had been killed and seven others injured in Papua.
With many opinions on an alleged involvement of military personnel in the Freeport shootings to the surface, Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono earlier said that he had yet to know the perpetrators of the attack in the sense whether they were of the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM), military personnel or others.
"Therefore we need to have results of an investigation into the case and further information," Juwono said.
Meanwhile the Indonesian Human Rights Monitor (Imparsial) External Affairs Director Poengky said recently that military personnel was allegedly behind the shootings in PT Freeport area in Papua because the strength of the separatist Free Papua Movement has diminished with time.
"The perpetrators in such a professional shooting are certainly well-trained and have now more capabilities, like military personnel," Poengky said.
But a Papua affairs observer from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Adriana Elisabeth, on Tuesday said that she doubted the police would be able to solve the PT Freeport shooting incidents.
"I doubt that the police will be able to find the perpetrators of the deadly attacks in the PT Freeport area in Mimika district, Papua, on Saturday and Sunday," Elisabeth said.
She said the perpetrators of various previous acts of violence in Papua had never been found because the conflict-prone region in Indonesia's easternmost province was a very difficult terrain.
"It is impossible the police will find the identity of the parties involved in the shootings because if the police managed to do this, it may lead to further conflicts," she said.
In the meantime, the deputy head of public relations division of the National Police Headquarters, Inspector General Sulistyo, said the operations would be part of the police's efforts to anticipate more security disruptions.
He said he could not yet explain the operations plan in detail as it was now still being discussed at the National Police Headquarters.
"They are to be called special, because they will be carried out by special forces with certain targets, for certain period of time and with a special budget," he said.
Besides enforcing the law the police in the operations would also reach out to local community leaders to maintain the local public's sense of security. ***1***
(T. E002/A/HAJM/14:05/A/O001)
Jakarta, July 16 (ANTARA) - Amid an ongoing search for snipers allegedly involved in the shooting of two employees of PT. Freeport Indonesia and one policeman in Papua, the government has been urged to set up an independent investigative team on the shooting incidents.
Let an independent investigation uncover the mastery behind the deadly shootings in the PT. Freeport area which happened in July 11,12 and 13, 2009, in Tembagapura, Papua Presidium Council (PDP) Secretary General Taha M Alhamid said in Jayapura on Thursday
An independent investigation should be made to solve the riddle of the three shootings last Saturday, Sunday, and Monday that had claimed the lives of two civilians and a policeman.
"We have to support the formation of an independent investigative team to find what and who were behind the shooting of two civilians and a policeman in the Freeport area," Alhamid said.
Since Saturday (July 11), three persons, including one worker of the US gold and copper mining company PT Freeport, had been killed in Papua.
Drew Nicholas Grant, an Australian national who worked for PT Freeport, was shot dead by unknown gunmen at Mile-53 on Saturday (July 11). Drew Grant was shot in the chest and neck.
On Sunday (July 12), there were two armed attacks respectively at Mile 51 and Mile 2, which killed Markus Rante Allo, a security guard of PT Freeport.
Then on Monday (July 13), Brigadier I Marson, a Papua police officer, was found dead at mile 52 road connecting Timika and Tembagapura, Mimika District, Papua Province, after reportedly gone missing earlier.
According to Alhamid, the independent investigation team could be made up of government and security officials, activists, and members of the public who have a strong commitment to uncovering the truth and facts behind the bloody incidents in Papua and to announcing the findings transparently to the public.
But he deplored statements made by some quarters cesuggesting that a certain party was involved in the incidents.
"It is a speculation that can lead to suspicion between one party and another because the allegation minght be wrong," Alhami said.
Commenting on the incidents, Ramses Wally, the chief of a tribe living in Babrongko kampong in Jayapura, on Wednesday opined that the root causes in Mimika district had to be investigated in order to prevent similar incidents from happening again in the future.
Shooting incidents had often occurred in the concession area of US gold and copper mining company PTFI. Therefore, the root causes of the happenings must be found out, .
Indonesian security personnel should find the root causes and the perpetrators of the shootings by involving foreign intelligence services, said Ramses who is also chairman of the Papua chapter of the United and Unitary Indonesia Party (KPKI).
Foreign involvement was necessary because several countries had also invested in the gold and and copper mining company, he said.
He said one should not jump to the conclusion that the shootings were the work of the OPM (Free Papua Organization), a separatist group led by Kelik Kwalik, because there might be several interests behind the bloody incidents.
He called on all parties to support the investigation being carried out by Indonesian security personnel.
Since Saturday (July 11), three persons, including one worker of US gold and copper mining company PT Freeport, had been killed and seven others injured in Papua.
With many opinions on an alleged involvement of military personnel in the Freeport shootings to the surface, Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono earlier said that he had yet to know the perpetrators of the attack in the sense whether they were of the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM), military personnel or others.
"Therefore we need to have results of an investigation into the case and further information," Juwono said.
Meanwhile the Indonesian Human Rights Monitor (Imparsial) External Affairs Director Poengky said recently that military personnel was allegedly behind the shootings in PT Freeport area in Papua because the strength of the separatist Free Papua Movement has diminished with time.
"The perpetrators in such a professional shooting are certainly well-trained and have now more capabilities, like military personnel," Poengky said.
But a Papua affairs observer from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Adriana Elisabeth, on Tuesday said that she doubted the police would be able to solve the PT Freeport shooting incidents.
"I doubt that the police will be able to find the perpetrators of the deadly attacks in the PT Freeport area in Mimika district, Papua, on Saturday and Sunday," Elisabeth said.
She said the perpetrators of various previous acts of violence in Papua had never been found because the conflict-prone region in Indonesia's easternmost province was a very difficult terrain.
"It is impossible the police will find the identity of the parties involved in the shootings because if the police managed to do this, it may lead to further conflicts," she said.
In the meantime, the deputy head of public relations division of the National Police Headquarters, Inspector General Sulistyo, said the operations would be part of the police's efforts to anticipate more security disruptions.
He said he could not yet explain the operations plan in detail as it was now still being discussed at the National Police Headquarters.
"They are to be called special, because they will be carried out by special forces with certain targets, for certain period of time and with a special budget," he said.
Besides enforcing the law the police in the operations would also reach out to local community leaders to maintain the local public's sense of security. ***1***
(T. E002/A/HAJM/14:05/A/O001)
