Police Shoot Police In South Solok Gegaram Tambang Pasir, Komnas HAM Searches For Permit

Illustration of a gun and bullet casing as evidence of a shooting incident. (Unsplash)

JAKARTA - The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) is still investigating the police shooting case that occurred in the South Solok Regency Police (Polres) area, West Sumatra (West Sumatra).

The shooting was allegedly because the perpetrator of the Head of Operations Section (Kabag Ops) of the South Solok Police, Dadang Iskandar, was not happy with the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit (Kasat Reskrim) Kompol Anumerta Ryanto Ulil Anshar who arrested someone related to the illegal sand and stone mining case in South Solok Regency. This incident occurred on Friday, January 22.

"Until today, Komnas HAM is still investigating this case, and has not found a strong relationship from this incident," said Head of the West Sumatra Province Komnas HAM Representative Office, Sultanul in Padang, Wednesday, January 8, as reported by Antara.

Sultanul said that several things that Komnas HAM explored were the ownership of heavy equipment operating in areas suspected of being illegal mining markets and stones.

This includes whether there are parties or agencies that intentionally issue permits or intentionally allow illegal mining activities to distribute channels for heavy equipment owners to get fuel oil (BBM) to operate heavy equipment.

"We will investigate whether there is a permit or not, where they get fuel to operate heavy equipment and other things," said Sultanul.

He said that until now Komnas HAM could not confirm who the owners or parties involved were directly from mining activities that caused a police officer to die.

"We have not yet traced who is behind this mining activity," he said.