The Action Of Rusuh Bakar-bakar Ruko Until The Korem Waena Jayapura Health Facilities Has Been Planned For These 4 Perpetrators

Jayapura City Police Chief Kombes Victor D. Mackbon (center, front) accompanied by Dandim 1701 Jayapura Lt. Col. Inf. Hendry Widodo (two left)/DOK ANTARA

Jayapura City Police Chief Kombes Victor D. Mackbon said his party had arrested four suspected perpetrators of burning a number of shop houses and health facilities belonging to Korem 172/PWY in Waena, Jayapura. The burning of shop houses, official houses and health facilities belonging to Korem 172/PWY occurred when thousands of people who accompanied the funeral of the body of former Papua Governor Lukas Enembe passed through the Waena area on Thursday, December 28, 2023. "The actions carried out by the perpetrators have previously been planned," said Victor accompanied by the Commander of Kodim 1701 Jayapura Lieutenant Colonel Infantry Hendry Widodo at a press conference on the disclosure of the case in Jayapura, Papua, Antara, Monday, January 22. The perpetrators with the initials HH (23), EW (18), GD (20), and CW (43) were arrested in a number of separate locations last week after a joint team studied the surveillance camera footage (closed circuit television/CCTV) around the scene. "The four perpetrators knew each other and had planned to make a fuss when the group escorted Lukas Enembe's body to his residence in Central Koya for burial," said Mackbon. The police chief said that from the confessions of the perpetrators who had been named as suspects, it was revealed that they were waiting for the delivery of the bodies in Waena so that when the group passed by they joined. Before burning the shophouse, the perpetrators tried to burn the Toko Jaya Pratama ceiling, which is located on Jalan Raya Waena, by first burning cardboard and throwing it at the shop ceiling. They then continued their action by throwing them while on traffic light until the community scattered. The condition was used by the perpetrators to burn shophouses around the traffic light to Jalan SPG Waena.

There were 28 buildings consisting of shop houses, official houses and health facilities belonging to Korem 172/PWY that were burned down. "The four perpetrators detained at the Jayapura City Police Headquarters were charged with Article 187 paragraph (1), Article 170 in conjunction with Article 64 of the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) 1e of the Criminal Code concerning vandalism and arson with a maximum prison sentence of 12 years," explained the Jayapura Police Chief.