Freeport's KKB Attacker Shot Dead

Freeport's KKB Attacker Shot Dead

Joint TNI-Polri apparatus is carrying out law enforcement against the National Liberation Army of the Free Papua Organization (TPN-OPM) who was allegedly attacked PT Freeport Indonesia's office in Kuala Kencana, March 30, 2020. One OPM member was declared shot dead.

Mimika Police Chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner I Gusti Gde Era Adhinata said in his press release that the KKB member was shot when the combined forces carried out law enforcement in the Tembagapura region.

"On April 10, 2020 in the Tembagapura area precisely in the Mount Botak area, the joint military-police apparatus had carried out law enforcement against the KKB. One KKB member was shot dead, "Era said in his press release in Jayapura, Saturday, April 11, 2020.

In addition to paralyzing the KKB, the joint apparatus succeeded in recapturing an organic SS1 weapon which was seized by the KKB at the Kulirik Police Station, Puncak Jaya Regional Police, on January 4, 2014. Not only weapons, a magazen and 17 rounds of ammunition were also confiscated.

"There is a firearm secured at the location. "From the results of the investigation, it is known that the senpi that was successfully obtained was the spoils at the Kutarik Police Station, Puncak Jaya Regional Police on January 4, 2014," he explained.