Polda Sultra Bongkar Penambangan Emas Illegal Di Bombana

Illegal gold mining locations in Wumbubangka Village, North Rarowatu District, Bombana Regency, Southeast Sulawesi (ANTARA)

Sub-Directorate Investigators (Sub-Directorate) IV Certain Crimes Of The Special Criminal Directorate (Dit Reskrimsus) of the Southeast Sulawesi Police have again revealed illegal gold mining activities in Wumbubangka Village, North Rarowatu District, Bombana Regency.

Head of Sub-Directorate IV of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Southeast Sulawesi Regional Police, Kompol Ronald Arron Maramis, said that mining without mining business license (IUP) in the IUP area of PT Anugerah Alam Buana Indonesia (AABI) in Bombana Regency, Southeast Sulawesi.

"Investigators from the Tipidter Sub-Directorate of the Criminal Investigation Directorate carried out illegal minning (illegal mining) patrols on Thursday, August 31, 2023, at around 11.00 WITA, found mining activities without IUP in the PT AABI IUP area," said Ronald.

In disclosing the illegal gold mine, he continued, investigators from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Southeast Sulawesi Police managed to arrest one suspect with the initials BG and confiscated a number of evidences in the form of gold production equipment and water suction.

"The investigative team has named one suspect, secured four sets of gold production equipment and a water suction device, and the evidence has been confiscated," he said.

Ronald said that the suspect would be subject to Article 158 of the Minerba Law Number 3 of 2020 for amendments to Law Number 4 of 2009 with a threat of five years in prison.

He explained that the disclosure of illegal mining began with a local community report stating that in the area it was suspected that illegal gold mining activities had occurred. This information was then followed up by carrying out illegal mining patrols by Sub-Directorate IV Tipidter.

"The location is quite far into the gold mining site, but we managed to reach the informed location and it turned out to be true, we found illegal gold mining activities in that place," said Ronald.