Waiting For Police-TNI Quick Work To Unload Weapons Suppliers To KKB Papua

JAKARTA - The origins of firearms (senpi) of the armed criminal group (KKB) are gradually being traced. This is because one by one the suppliers have been arrested.

The TNI-Police team has also continued to develop several uncovered cases of senpi suppliers to KKB. So, later it can break the supply chain of the illegal senpi.

Not long ago, a TNI-Police team secured R (42) who was working as a driver. He was arrested for allegedly supplying firearms and ammunition to KKB in Nabire.

"The TNI-Police team has indeed arrested R in Nabire who is suspected of being the supplier of weapons and ammunition for the KKB", said Biak Commander of Korem (Danrem) 173 / PVB Brigadier General Iwan Setiawan, Wednesday, February 24.

The arrest of R is the result of an in-depth investigation. From R's arrest, evidence was found in the form of two airsoft guns and 28 ammunition of various caliber, and one box of ammunition for airsoft guns.

For now, R is still undergoing examination at the Nabire Police Headquarters. During the examination, the origin of senpi and ammunition will be extracted.

In January, the police also arrested a person with the initials MS. From the arrests, four pieces of penny bought from Sanger Talaud, North Sulawesi were also confiscated.

Based on the results of the senpi examination that was secured from MS, it was suspected that he came from the Philippines. Later the senpi will be sold to KKB.

Then, recently, 6 people were also caught in the case of supplying senpi to KKB. In fact, two of them are police officers and 1 TNI AD person.

This case began when a person with the initials WT alias J was arrested for possession of illegal weapons in Bintuni, West Papua. So, it is developed and it is known the involvement of individual members.

Based on the investigation, the two police officers were involved as intermediaries. One of the police officers with the initials S is said to have sold senpi to WT. But he did not know if the senpi would later be sold to KKB.

"From the results of the development of investigations and investigations, it turns out that S has twice sold homemade firearms to WT alias J who was caught at the Bintuni (West Papua) Police last week", said the Head of Police for Ambon Island and Lease Islands, Maluku, Kombes Leo SN. Simatupang.

From the examination, S admitted that he had sold senpi to WT just for profit. Because, in buying and selling weapons, the profits reached millions of rupiah.

"He bought a penny assembled SS1 type long barrel from the public for IDR 6 million and then sold it to WT for IDR 20 million", explained Kombes Leo.

Meanwhile, the possession of the short-barreled revolver type in the hands of the suspect, said Leo, was known to belong to a member of the Police with the initials MRA on duty at the Ambon Island Police.

This senpi was obtained from someone who is currently still in the development of a police investigation. However, from the inspection of the MRA, the senpi was handed over to a civilian with the initials SN then handed over to suspect J and seven bullets from suspect I which had also been handed over to J.

Apart from the two police officers, Leo said that one who came from the Indonesian Army had already been secured by the XVI / Pattimura Regional Military Command.

In this case, the perpetrators were charged under Article 1 paragraph (1) of the Republic of Indonesia Law number 12 of 1951 with the threat of death penalty or life imprisonment, or a minimum of 20 years in prison.