Many North Halmahera Residents Have Rakitan Weapons, Start Voluntary Leave Them To The Pamrahwan Task Force

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JAKARTA - A number of residents in North Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, handed over the homemade firearms they had to the Security Task Force for Prone Areas (Pamrahwan) Battalion Arhanud.

The commander of the Yonarhanud 3/YBY Task Force, Lt. Col. Arh Achmad Yani, said that the handover of homemade firearms to the Pamrahwan Task Force was a form of public awareness and the success of the task force in winning the hearts of the people.

"In the implementation of coaching to the community, understanding is also inserted about the ban on possession of firearms and they knowingly without coercion handed over homemade firearms that have been stored so far," said Lt. Col. Arh Achmad Yani, Wednesday, February 1, as reported by Antara.

Last January 31, a resident of Wosia Village handed over a homemade long-barreled weapon to Sertu Miskijo, a member of Pos Kotis. JM's awareness arose because he often received water filling ready to drink innovation from Yonarhanud 3/YBY.

On a different day, still at Kotis Post, Saturday (21/1), a resident from MKCM Village, Tobelo District, North Halmahera Regency also handed over a homemade long-barreled weapon to Serda Jusantra Purba.

Meanwhile, from Die Village, Galela Induk District, North Halmahera Regency, a resident with the initials SB who often played football with members of the Dukono Post handed over a long-barreled homemade weapon to Kopda Dwi Hartato.

Until now, the homemade weapons handed over to the North Maluku Pamrahwan task force Yonarhanud 3/Yby were recorded at 51 with details of 50 homemade weapons consisting of 35 long-barreled and 15 short-barreled weapons.

Then organic weapons of one type of smb, a mixture of 79 rounds of munitions and four explosives consisting of three grenades and one mine.