Police Investigate The Discovery Of 600 Ammunition Plans To Be Supplied To KKB In Timika

Mimika Police Chief AKBP IGG Era Adhinata. (Photo: Evarianus Supar/Antara)

JAKARTA - The joint investigation team of the Mimika Police with the Nemangkawi Task Force is still investigating the discovery of more than 600 rounds of 5.56 millimeter ammunition which are planned to be supplied to the armed criminal group (KKB), recently in Timika. Mimika Police Chief AKBP Era Adhinata in Timika , Wednesday said that so far his staff had arrested four people involved in the syndicate of buying and selling ammunition. Era Adhinata was reported by Antara, Wednesday, October 6. Three of the four residents who were detained were arrested by the Nemangkawi Task Force in Timika on Thursday, September 30. One of the perpetrators with the initials AB was arrested at his home on Jalan Pendidikan Route 7 Timika. From the hands of AB, the officers confiscated 255 rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition and a motorcycle without a police number. To the officers, AB admitted that he had previously sold 350 rounds of ammunition to a person known to have the initials KG through an intermediary someone with the initials BS. Following up on AB's statement, the Nemangkawi Task Force Team then took BS on Jalan Sam Ratulangi Timika and subsequently arrested KG on Jalan Hasanuddin Timika. KG admitted that the ammunition he bought from AB was stored in his pigsty on Jalan Hasanuddin. Hasanuddin.

The Nemangkawi Task Force team then took KG to the location of his pig farm on Jalan Hasanuddin and found 349 rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition. Also secured with hundreds of rounds of ammunition was one Daihatsu Terios car with police number PA-1689-MJ. The total ammunition that the Nemangkawi Task Force Team managed to secure from various places in Timika at that time was 604 rounds. KG revealed that hundreds of rounds of ammunition were planned to be sold to the head of KKB Nduga Egianus Kogoya. for a number of cases of armed violence and murder in the Nduga area. One of the most horrendous was the case of the murder of dozens of workers at PT Istaka Karya, a contractor company that worked on roads and bridges for the Trans Papua segment on December 2, 2018.