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News Focus: POLICE EXPECTED TO CAPTURE OTHER SUSPECTS INVOLVED IN ABEPURA INCIDENT
By Eliswan Azly
Jakarta, April 13 (ANTARA) -- After arresting a man believed to be one of the assailants, the police are expected to uncover the mastermind of the attack on a police precinct in Abepura, Papua province.
"Preliminary proof shows they had committed violent actions, and we are going to deal with another person suspected of having provoked the attackers," National Police Chief Bambang Hendarso said here on Monday.
However, he refused to confirm whether the arrested suspects were members of the Free Papua Movement (OPM).
"No, we don't want to mention it (OPM), at least they are members of an armed group which has violated the law and we will take stern action against them," he said.
In response to the arrest of the assailant involved in the Abepura incident, Dr Sofyan Siregar, a noted political analyst, had praised the police for arresting an alleged mastermind and also hoped other members could be captured and brought to justice soon.
Police findings on the violent attacks in Abepura had indicated that they were committed under the auspices of the Free Papua Movement.
"I suspect that the Free Papua Organization (OPM) is behind the attacks," he said adding that actually it was the organization's scenario to hamper the implementation of the legislative general election.
"I learn that since the visit of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) co-founder Nicholas Jouwe to Indonesia and Papua, who is living in exile in the Netherlands for the past 40 years has inspired other OPM members to have the guts to resort to anarchy and even to launch an attack," he further said.
Nicholas who was received in audience by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Cikeas, Bogor at the end of March had applied for Indonesian nationality which would allow him to return to Indonesia for good, after spending more than 40 years in exile in the Netherlands.
"Nicholas wishes to spend the rest of his life building Papua using the region's special autonomy," one of the founders of the Independent Group Supporting the Autonomous Region of Papua within The Republic of Indonesia (IGSARPRI), Franzalbert Yoku said.
However in the past three weeks during the campaign period, many trucks full of anti-general election people took to the streets in a show of force to show the public that they rejected the implementation of the legislative general election. "I hope that the police can also deal with this while interrogating the suspects," Sofyan said.
A series of attacks had rocked Papua since the Election Day several days ago. It began with a bomb blast on the Muara Tanim bridge, near the border of Papua and Papua New Guinea. Then it was followed by series of attacks against police stations in Abepura.
Almost at the same time, a bomb had exploded in a building in the Cendrawasih University, destroyed the building and several cars parked nearby.
National police spokesman Insp. Gen. Abubakar Nataprawira also said the police had also found three more self-made bombs stored in a trash bin in the front of a store in Abepura district, Jayapura Sunday. The bombs consisted of a Molotov bomb and two self made bombs.
He said five men namely Saharudin, Junaidi, Ansel, Joseph Romulus and Johnny Emburi, had been questioned as witnesses of the bomb finding.
Gen. Bambang Hendarso said members of an armed group in Papua had launched more daring and radical attacks, the general said.
"Since the beginning, they had committed violent actions. Before the implementation of the legislative election, they had attacked a command post, one military man was shot dead, and so on. They had planned the attacks," he said.
Meanwhile, Commander of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Djoko Santoso, also at the Presidential Office said the violent actions committed by OPM members showed that they still existed.
"Security disturbance in Papua is only meant to attract attention that they still exist. We are still studying their movements," he said.
The Indonesian Police have earlier named six suspects and grilled eight people as witnesses concerning several attacks in Abepura.
Last Thursday (April 9), unknown men attacked five new settlers in Wamena, Jayawijaya, Papua. Two persons were killed and several others injured in the incident.
A police station in the Mutung border area was under fire from unknown people.
In response to escalating attacks allegedly carried out by members of the OPM, spokesman Brig Gen Christian Zebua on Saturday said that more soldiers would be deployed to secure areas prone to violence, particularly in Tingginambut,Puncak Jaya district.
"The police reinforcement will come from local military command base, not from outside of the island," Christian said.
The latest attack by members of the separatist group, he said, was on Saturday noon in Tingginambut.
"We have been trying to prevent our troops from massive retaliation. Until Saturday noon, a patrol was attacked and led to the death of one of the officers," he said.
The dead officer has been identified as Saiful Jusuf. He was shot on the head.
Christian said the team had failed to capture the perpetrators. For that, he said, the army was working with the local police to try to identify the attackers, while adding more troops at every security stations and security patrol teams.
The attackers also set fire on a bridge when they tried to escape from a pursue of the army.
Jakarta, April 13 (ANTARA) -- After arresting a man believed to be one of the assailants, the police are expected to uncover the mastermind of the attack on a police precinct in Abepura, Papua province.
"Preliminary proof shows they had committed violent actions, and we are going to deal with another person suspected of having provoked the attackers," National Police Chief Bambang Hendarso said here on Monday.
However, he refused to confirm whether the arrested suspects were members of the Free Papua Movement (OPM).
"No, we don't want to mention it (OPM), at least they are members of an armed group which has violated the law and we will take stern action against them," he said.
In response to the arrest of the assailant involved in the Abepura incident, Dr Sofyan Siregar, a noted political analyst, had praised the police for arresting an alleged mastermind and also hoped other members could be captured and brought to justice soon.
Police findings on the violent attacks in Abepura had indicated that they were committed under the auspices of the Free Papua Movement.
"I suspect that the Free Papua Organization (OPM) is behind the attacks," he said adding that actually it was the organization's scenario to hamper the implementation of the legislative general election.
"I learn that since the visit of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) co-founder Nicholas Jouwe to Indonesia and Papua, who is living in exile in the Netherlands for the past 40 years has inspired other OPM members to have the guts to resort to anarchy and even to launch an attack," he further said.
Nicholas who was received in audience by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Cikeas, Bogor at the end of March had applied for Indonesian nationality which would allow him to return to Indonesia for good, after spending more than 40 years in exile in the Netherlands.
"Nicholas wishes to spend the rest of his life building Papua using the region's special autonomy," one of the founders of the Independent Group Supporting the Autonomous Region of Papua within The Republic of Indonesia (IGSARPRI), Franzalbert Yoku said.
However in the past three weeks during the campaign period, many trucks full of anti-general election people took to the streets in a show of force to show the public that they rejected the implementation of the legislative general election. "I hope that the police can also deal with this while interrogating the suspects," Sofyan said.
A series of attacks had rocked Papua since the Election Day several days ago. It began with a bomb blast on the Muara Tanim bridge, near the border of Papua and Papua New Guinea. Then it was followed by series of attacks against police stations in Abepura.
Almost at the same time, a bomb had exploded in a building in the Cendrawasih University, destroyed the building and several cars parked nearby.
National police spokesman Insp. Gen. Abubakar Nataprawira also said the police had also found three more self-made bombs stored in a trash bin in the front of a store in Abepura district, Jayapura Sunday. The bombs consisted of a Molotov bomb and two self made bombs.
He said five men namely Saharudin, Junaidi, Ansel, Joseph Romulus and Johnny Emburi, had been questioned as witnesses of the bomb finding.
Gen. Bambang Hendarso said members of an armed group in Papua had launched more daring and radical attacks, the general said.
"Since the beginning, they had committed violent actions. Before the implementation of the legislative election, they had attacked a command post, one military man was shot dead, and so on. They had planned the attacks," he said.
Meanwhile, Commander of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) General Djoko Santoso, also at the Presidential Office said the violent actions committed by OPM members showed that they still existed.
"Security disturbance in Papua is only meant to attract attention that they still exist. We are still studying their movements," he said.
The Indonesian Police have earlier named six suspects and grilled eight people as witnesses concerning several attacks in Abepura.
Last Thursday (April 9), unknown men attacked five new settlers in Wamena, Jayawijaya, Papua. Two persons were killed and several others injured in the incident.
A police station in the Mutung border area was under fire from unknown people.
In response to escalating attacks allegedly carried out by members of the OPM, spokesman Brig Gen Christian Zebua on Saturday said that more soldiers would be deployed to secure areas prone to violence, particularly in Tingginambut,Puncak Jaya district.
"The police reinforcement will come from local military command base, not from outside of the island," Christian said.
The latest attack by members of the separatist group, he said, was on Saturday noon in Tingginambut.
"We have been trying to prevent our troops from massive retaliation. Until Saturday noon, a patrol was attacked and led to the death of one of the officers," he said.
The dead officer has been identified as Saiful Jusuf. He was shot on the head.
Christian said the team had failed to capture the perpetrators. For that, he said, the army was working with the local police to try to identify the attackers, while adding more troops at every security stations and security patrol teams.
The attackers also set fire on a bridge when they tried to escape from a pursue of the army.
