National Police Chief: The Existence Of A DOB Should Be Able To Press The Existence Of KKB In Papua

National Police Chief General Pol Listyo Sigit Prabowo at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday (7/2/2023). (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo assessed that the formation of a new autonomous region (DOB) in Papua should have been able to reduce the number of armed criminal groups (KKB). On the other hand, the motive of the KKB group Egianus Kogeya (EK) burned the Susi Air plane on Tuesday, namely rejecting the existence of a regional expansion. Sigit said with the existence of a regional expansion that is currently divided into three new provinces in Papua, namely South Papua, Central Papua and Papua Mountains can reduce the KKB terror acts. "We should have carried out the development of a new area of autonomy operation, development of the welfare area, of course we hope that the number of KKBs will also decrease," said Sigit after the Rapim TNI-Polri at the Sultan Hotel, Jakarta, Wednesday, February 8. He said, against groups that interfere with security in Papua including KKB, he guarantees that the Police and TNI will take firm action. "Against groups that continue to carry out security disturbances, of course the TNI-Polri will agree that we will strictly enforce the norms related to human rights. Of course, we will still pay attention to the norms," said Sigit. In addition, Sigit ensures that the Police and TNI will tighten security and add personnel in vulnerable areas of Papua. He hopes that in the future there will be no more casualties from the KKB terror acts or other groups. "Of course, thickening in vulnerable areas, red areas will certainly be our attention so that the number of KKBs, KKB attacks, we hope that we can reduce the number of KKBs, including those originating from abroad," he said. He suggested that pioneering airports in the mountains that become KKB's nests are temporarily closed.