The Jakarta Post, 1/14/2003 12:46:39 PM
Papua deputy chief who implicated soldiers in Timika killings
moved to Jakarta
JAKARTA (JP): A senior police officer in Papuawho implicated soldiers in an ambush
near the Freeport mine said Tuesday he had been transferred to Jakarta, AFP
reported.
Brig. Gen. Raziman Tarigan, Papua deputy police chief, said he had been assigned a
new post as the chief provost at police headquarters in Jakarta.
He said he was replaced as Papua deputy police chief by Comr.Gen. Tommy
Jacobus.
Tarigan denied that his transfer was connected to his revelation of possible military
involvement in the August 31 deadly ambush near the US-owned Freeportgold and
copper mine.
Gunmen fired well over 100 shots at buses near Freeport on August 31, killing two US
teachers and an Indonesian colleague, police said.
Tarigan said in November that Kopassus special forces soldiers were suspected of
carrying out the attack.
He said a native Papuan, who had been an informer and guide for a local unit of
Kopassus, told police a week after the ambush that he knew the names of four of 11
soldiers involved in the attack.
But Coordinating Minister for Polical and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
said this month that a joint police and military inquiry into the attack had found no
evidence so far that soldiers were involved.
Alberth Rumbekwan of the Papua human rights group Elsham Papua Barat said he
suspected Tarigan was replaced because he had implicated the Indonesianmilitary in
several violent incidents in Papua, including the Freeport shootings.
"The deputy police chief was very brave to resolve cases with Indonesian Armed
Forces involvement," Rumbekwan said.
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