MPR Chair Bambang Soesatyo Asks Government To Sweep KKB: Don't Hesitate To Take Action Just Because Of Human Rights Issues

JAKARTA - Chairman of the MPR RI Bambang Soesatyo emphasized that it is time for the state to take firm action against terrorist armed criminal groups (KKB) in Papua, by reducing all the dimensions of power they have. more tolerance for KKB terrorists to commit crimes that disturb the public and cause casualties," said Bambang Soesatyo or Bamsoet in his statement in Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Monday, September 20. Kiwirok District, Bintang Mountains District, Papua. The KKB's actions caused female health workers to be harassed to death, and kicked into the abyss. Bamsoet asked the government to reduce the strength of the four best Matra, in addition to Brimob Polri, namely Gultor Kopassus, Raiders, Bravo, and Denjaka. According to him, the government needs to give the best troops as soon as possible to crush the KKB terrorists in Papua. I emphasize again, brush it off (KKB in Papua), we will discuss human rights issues later, don't hesitate to act only because of human rights issues. Prioritize the safety of the Indonesian people," he said.

He said the West Papua National Liberation Army of the Free Papua Organization (TPNB-OPM) has admitted that this action is part of their action. Therefore, according to him, there is no reason for the TNI-Polri not to immediately crush the savage terrorists of armed criminal groups in Indonesia. Papua. "Where are the voices of human rights activists and women's activists? Why when their compatriots are brutally murdered and raped, they are silent? But when the state apparatus crushes the perpetrators (KKB in Papua), they scream about human rights?," he said. said that there had been too much unrest by KKB terrorists in Papua, the victims were ordinary people, TNI-Polri, until they had targeted health workers. He gave an example on April 8, 2021, KKB terrorists in Puncak Regency shot dead a teacher named Oktavianus Rayo and also burned three schools in Puncak Regency." Then on April 9, 2021, a junior high school teacher named Yonathan Randen was shot dead again by KKB in Puncak Regency. The suggestion was that a motorcycle taxi driver named Udin was shot in the Ilaga Market area of Puncak Regency by KKB on April 14, 2021," he said. In addition, according to him, on April 15, 2021, KKB shot and killed a high school student in Puncak Regency named Ali Mom, Even the Head of the Papua Regional BIN, Brigadier General Putu I Gusti Putu Danny Nugraha, was also a victim of the outrage as a result of being shot by KKB terrorists in Beoga, Puncak Regency, Papua.