The Jakarta Post, December 19, 2003
U.S. agents leave Papua
JAKARTA: A team of United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents has
left Papua after questioning a number of witnesses in connection with the ambush in
which three teachers, including two Americans, were killed in August 2002.
Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Timbul Silaen said on Thursday that the FBI team had
left the province three days ago.
"They have questioned a number of witnesses. None of those witnesses were military
(TNI members)," he told The Jakarta Post, saying that the FBI agents were free to
question witnesses.
Timbul, however, refused to go into any more details on the process of the
investigation.
An FBI team of four investigators arrived in Indonesia earlier this month to investigate
the bloody ambush. During the probe, they were accompanied by a National Police
team led by Brig. Gen. Indarto.
A group of unidentified gunmen fired at two buses carrying Freeport employees from
the Tembagapura International School on Aug. 31 last year. Two American school
teachers and one Indonesian were killed and 12 others wounded.
An investigation by local police revealed earlier that some military personnel were
involved in the killing but military leaders have consistently denied the suggestion,
saying that it did not match with the facts found by the TNI's own investigation. -- JP
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