TNI-Polri On Standby For City Patrols, KKB Targets To Kill 19 People In Ilaga Papua

Joint forces guarding Ilaga Papua (TNI documentation)

JAKARTA - The Armed Criminal Group (KKB) targeted the murder of 19 residents in Ilaga, Puncak Regency, Papua.

This information surfaced when a meeting was held with the Puncak Regency Muspika and community leaders at the Negelar Hall of the Puncak Regional Government, Kp. Kimak, Ilaga District, Puncak Regency, Papua, Tuesday, April 20.

In the event, the Regent of Puncak Willem Wandik asked the KKB to communicate this, so that there would be no more wrong targets and blind killings because previously there had been killings of residents by the KKB.

"To the KKB so that the 19 people they decide on, let me know so I can tell them, or if not, you tell them not to make things they don't like, I just said okay," said Willem.

Willem also considers that the KKB's actions by killing and raping residents are not male traits and violates custom, in which Papua is a land that upholds custom, loves peace and if you want to go to war it only involves an equal opponent. In this case, if the KKB is armed, the opponent will be the TNI-Polri, not the powerless people like teachers, high school students and motorcycle taxi drivers.

"If you want war, we will prepare a battlefield, so that we, the people, withdraw and you fight against the TNI-Polri, that's just a man. Don't make people afraid or become victims, ”he said.

Meanwhile, Kapolres Puncak Kompol I Nyoman Punia said the TNI-Polri security apparatus had carried out patrol activities in the city to create security in Ilaga City. "I ask the community that we together maintain and create a safe situation in Puncak Regency," he said.

In line with this, Dandim Puncak Jaya Lt. Col. Inf Rofi Irwansyah said the presence of the TNI-Polri was to protect the community and maintain the security of Puncak Regency. "Therefore, not because our presence makes people away from us, but make them part of the community so that they can create security in Ilaga City," he said.

"We have also implemented security in Ilaga City, we carry out patrol activities in this city to create security and also provide security to the community, so that the KKB group cannot enter Ilaga City, to create a fuss," Dandim Puncak Jaya.