North Maluku Yonarhanud Task Force Secures 2 Assembled Weapons From Residents

Task Force Yonarhanud 3/Yby Pos Koki Dumdum, North Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, secured two standard Arisaka 99 weapons from local residents, Monday (17/7/2023).

TERNATE - Security Task Force for Prone Areas (Pamrahwan) Yonarhanud 3/Yby Pos Koki Dumdum, North Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, secured two standard weapons of the Arisaka 99 type from local residents. "In addition, there are four rounds of Kal. 6.5 mm from the residents of Akelamo Village," said North Maluku Pamrahwan Task Force Commander Yonarhanud 3/Yby Lieutenant Colonel Arh. Achmad Yani was contacted from Ternate, Antara, Monday, July 17. He said Pos Dumdum's activities invited the public to provide counseling on the innovation of BIOS 44 organic fertilizer and fuel-saving fluids, then distributed BIOS organic fertilizer and fuel-saving fluids to make people closer to members of the Dumdum Post. Social communication activities while introducing innovation products for BIOS 44 and fuel-saving liquids in Akelamo Village so that people are more familiar with fuel-saving products created. On that occasion, his party conveyed a message to the public that there were residents who kept firearms, both standard and assembled and other explosives so that they could be secured at the Koki Dumdum Post. In addition to carrying out social communication, soccer is also often used with the community in Akelamo Village, one of the residents with the initials AU who invited First Lieutenant Arh Gusti to hunt deer. However, it was immediately rejected because they would use weapons and the resident also said that bullets and weapons would be from the task force. From this information, the Pamrahwan Task Force suspected that there were still weapons in Akelamo Village, so we conducted searches and approaches to these residents. He stated that according to chronology, the Air Force called First Lieutenant Arh. Gusti asked for help in examining her father SU's condition because it was three nights since the body was hot and high with nausea and vomiting. After being examined from the health department, Pratu Duding, that AU's parents had to be taken to the Tobelo Hospital. Then Praka Suriadi immediately borrowed a local resident's car to take him to Tobelo Hospital after a blood check was carried out, his diagnosis was dengue fever and had to be treated at Tobelo Hospital. After SU recovered, First Lieutenant Gusti then asked for help from a local community leader named Haji Imam to persuade the Air Force to give up his weapons. At the invitation from religious leaders, finally AU and his father SU on Saturday (15/7), handed over their weapons to First Lieutenant Gusti and Praka Suriadi.

Until now, the number of weapons handed over by residents to the North Maluku Pamrahwan Task Force Yonarhanud 3/Yby was 118 pieces, with details of 110 homemade weapons, eight organic weapons/standards, 511 rounds of mixed ammunition, and 33 explosives consisting of 26 grenades, seven mines and one magazine.