The Mimika police and Nemangkawi anti-terrorist task force is continuing investigation into the recent discovery of an ammunition stash of six hundred 5.56-mm bullets suspected to be supplied for the Papuan separatist group in Timika.

Mimika police head Adjunct Senior Commissioner IGG Era Adhinata confirmed that the police had arrested four people in connection with the discovery of the ammunition stash.

“We have arrested four people in connection with the case, and we are currently coordinating to investigate the origin of the ammunition,” Adhinata stated here on Wednesday.
Three of the suspects were arrested by the Nemangkawi task force officers in Timika on Sept 30. During the raid, the police arrested a person identified by his initial as AB, and confiscated 255 bullets of 5.56 mm calibre and one motorcycle lacking a registration plate from him.

AB admitted to officers that he had sold 350 bullets to another person, known as KG, with BS serving as their intermediary. Following his statement, the officers arrested BS on Sam Ratulangi Road and KG on Hasanuddin Road, both in Timika.

During his arrest, KG admitted to having secured the ammunition stash on his pigsty on Hasanuddin Road, Timika. KG’s statement was then proven, as the police found 349 bullets of 5.56 mm calibre at the place he had described earlier.

The police confiscated a total of 604 bullets and a Daihatsu Terios car, bearing registration code PA 1689 MJ, during the raid.

KG also admitted that the ammunition was meant for the Papuan separatist armed group ringleader in Nduga, Egianus Kogoya.

Kogoya, currently on the police’s wanted list, is responsible for armed violence and murders of civilians and police officers in the Nduga region. Kogoya was also the mastermind behind the murder of dozens of employees of PT Istaka Karya — Trans Papua Road and bridge construction contractor — on December 2, 2018.

Source: Antara News