KKB Weapon Supplier

KKB Weapon Supplier

Papua Regional Police Chief Inspector General Paulus Waterpauw said firearms and ammunition owned by armed criminal groups (KKB) in Papua were thought to have come from domestic and abroad.

"Currently, we are tracking the ownership of ammunition and weapons owned by the KKB," Papua Police Chief Inspector General Paulus Waterpauw Papua said when met at RSMM Timika, Sunday (12/1).

The information obtained was strongly suspected that the manufacturer's weapons as well as homemade weapons and ammunition were illegally supplied from several areas. Several previous cases, weapons were smuggled in from PNG via rat routes at the border and also from the Philippines via North Maluku into Sorong, West Papua.

"Therefore, I ask for help from the community, when they know or hear the issue to inform us, so that the network is quickly prevented and captured and revealed," he said.

There was also information that there were modern assembled weapons assembled in Lumajang, East Java. This weapon is indicated to have entered Papua. According to the Kapolda, this is a big job for the TNI-Polri to conduct an investigation. Because, with weapons KKB terrorized and blackmailed community leaders to the government to ask for financial assistance.