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By APD writer Aditya Nugraha
JAKARTA, March 21 (APD) – An Indonesian police was killed in a shootout against insurgents in the nation’s easternmost province of Papua on Wednesday, making it the second deadly incident this month after the one that killed 3 Indonesian troops.
The shootout occurred earlier in the day when a group of police did regular security check in an airstrip located in Nduga regency’s district of Mugi.
Besides resulted one death, the shootout also injured 2 other police.
“Yes, it was true (that a police was killed),” Head of Papua Police Headquarters Martuani Sormin said in the province’s capital of Jayapura.
All of the three police shot by the insurgents have been rushed to a hospital in Mimika regency, he added.
Earlier on March 7, three Indonesian military troops were killed in an ambush perpetrated by Papua insurgents in the same regency when they secured Trans Papua road project that linking Papua’s western to eastern cities.
The group of 25 troops fired back at the insurgents, managed to kill 10 of them. According to Papua Military Headquarters Spokesperson Muhammad Aidi, the shootouts ended after the troops managed to hit back the insurgents who eventually returned into the jungle.
Trans Papua road project now is carried out by troops after the slaughtering of 19 civilian workers and a troop by insurgents in December last year.
Papua insurgents, organized in Free Papua Movement (OPM), have frequently carried out attacks against civilian, military and police targets in their bid to make the mineral-rich province of Papua separated from Indonesia territory.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
