1) 100 Brimob personnel deployed following shooting of 3 cops in Papua

1) 100 Brimob personnel deployed following shooting of 3 cops in Papua

2) Update: Three Killed in Attack on Papua Police Station

3) Unknown gunmen kill three police officers in Papua

4) Solidarity organisation calls on police not to violence on 1 December

5)   5.5 magnitude earthquake hits Papua

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1) 100 Brimob personnel deployed following shooting of 3 cops in Papua

Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Archipelago | Tue, November 27 2012, 5:14 PM

National Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo said on Tuesday that about 100 Mobile Brigade (Brimob) officers had been deployed at Pirime of Papua, following the killing of three police officers: Pirime Police Chief Second Insp. Rofli Takabesi, Brig. Jefri Rumkoren and Sec. Brig. Daniel Makuker

“The shootings by unknown assailants took place at 4 a.m. this morning in Pirime, about eight hours drive from Jayapura [Papua’s provincial capital],” Timur told the press at the State Palace.

Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian has also been sent to the scene.

Timur refused link the perpetrators to the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM). “My officers are still investigating the incident, let’s wait,” he said. (lfr)

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2) Update: Three Killed in Attack on Papua Police Station

November 27, 2012

Separatist gunmen attacked a police station Tuesday in Indonesia’s restive Papua province, killing three officers and setting the complex alight, police said.

Around 50 gunmen, said by police to be members of the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM), attacked the Pirime police station in the town of Wamena, provincial police spokesman I Gde Sumarta told AFP.

“There was an attack on Tuesday on Pirime police station, which resulted in the death of three police officers,” he said via text message, adding that investigations are continuing.

“A shootout broke out between police and the gunmen, who have since fled to the mountains,” he said.

National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told reporters in Jakarta the gunmen had seized weapons from the station. 

“They seized three weapons — two rifles and a pistol belonging to the police chief,” he said. “We know the group needed weapons to carry out attacks.”

The Pirime police chief and another officer were found dead in their barracks, while a third was killed as he prepared to raise the Indonesian flag, Sumarta said.

The police station was set alight and the officers’ bodies were charred.

Amar said security had been strengthened at police stations and police were hunting down the perpetrators.

“They have escaped to the highlands and chasing them is not easy,” he said, referring to the mountainous centre of the province, a known separatist hub.

Gun attacks are not uncommon in resource-rich Papua, where poorly-armed separatist groups have for decades fought a low-level insurgency on behalf of the mostly ethnic Melanesian population.

Agence France-Presse

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3) Unknown gunmen kill three police officers in Papua

Tue, November 27 2012 18:23 | 101 Views

Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA News) - One officer was safe but three others were killed after unknown gunmen attacked a police station in Pirime in the district of Lanny Jaya, Papua, early on Tuesday morning.

One of the officers who was killed in the attack at around 6.30am local time is Second Inspector Rofli Takubesi, who was the chief of the Pirime police sector, Papua Regional Police Command spokesman Adjunct Senior Commissioner Gede Sumerta told ANTARA News. 

The others are Brigadier Jefri Rumkoren and First Brigadier Daniel Makuker who were members of the police sector.

The officer who was safe is First Brigadier MG, by his initials, but he was not yet informed about his present conditions. 

He said the chief of the Papua Regional Police Command, Inspector General Tito Karnavian was already in Wamena on the way to Pirime which is around three hours drive from the district. (*)

Editor: Heru

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From Tapol

4) Solidarity organisation calls on police not to violence on 1 December

Bintang Papua, 26 November 2012

Jayapura: Alius Asso, the deputy chairman of SHDRP,  the Papuan Civil Society Organisation for Solidarity, Law and Human Rights, has urged the police to use persuasive methods on 1 December when demonstrations will take place to mark the anniversary of 1 December.

Asso said that on that day, there will be actions by indigenous groups in seven regions that claim to be part of the Federated Republic of West Papua  in Mamta, Saireri, Bomberay, Domberay, Me Pago, Ha Amin and several other places, which will take the form of prayer meetings or flag ceremonies.

However, Asso said that it was not possible for him to tell groups not to wave the Morning Star flag  'because they have every right to do so'.

He said that it was up to the security force to act in a professional way during these coming events. Demonstrations on 1 December have become a regular annual feature for Papuan people to  commemorate this historic day and this has been going on for many years.

'The police should act wisely and professionally. They should avoid repressive actions. If they fail to do so, there will be many victims among the Papuan people . In Sentani, it is likely that  the event will take place at the grave of [the assassinated Papuan leader] Theys Eluay with prayers being said.' But Asso said  he was not sure what would happen in Jayapura.

The chief of police for Papua, Inspector-General Tito Karnavian has said that the army (TNI) and the police will be out guarding the areas because this is an integral part of their duties.. But Asso said that they should not resort to the use of violence. 'If the demonstrators only intend to say prayers, why should this be banned by the security forces?'

He went on to say that the spirit of democracy is developing and people are expressing their aspirations in peaceful ways, but if the State goes on silencing democracy, it will be responsible for closing down the space for democracy and there will be yet more injustices and human right abuses.

'Everyone agrees about the need for security and moreover there is a law in force which guarantees protection for the citizens. And this is quite clear in the first article of the 1945 constitution.'

[Translated by TAPOL]

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5)   5.5 magnitude earthquake hits Papua

Tue, November 27 2012 21:10 | 84 Views

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale jolted the southeastern part of Sarmi district, Papua province, on Tuesday at 6.58 pm Western Indonesia Time.

According to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the epicentre of the earthquake was located at 2.60 degrees southern latitude and 138.82 degrees western longitude, approximately 80 kilometres southeast of Sarmi, 208 km southwest of Jayapura city, Papua, and 3,850 km northeast of Jakarta.

The earthquake was not strong enough to trigger a tsunami.(*)