Voice of Baptist Papua: The Unfolding Crisis

REPORT BY Voice Of Baptist Papua, West Papua [ENGLISH Translation By IPAHR}
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Mako Tabuni ( Sekjen KNPB)

Jayapura--Wakil Ketua Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB) Mako Tabuni, Kamis (14/6) sekitar pukul 11.50 WIT tewas tertembak di Jayapura, Papua. [Deputy Head of West Papua National Committe (KNPB), Thursday (14/6) at 11.50am (Papua local time) was shot in Jayapura, Papua.]

Saat berita ini ditulis, jenazah korban masih berada di Rumah Sakit Polri Bhayangkara, Jayapura, untuk autopsi. [When the news was written, the dead body of the victim is still in Indonesian Police Bayangkara Hospital for autopsy.]

Mako Tabuni tewas tertembak saat berada di kawasan Perumnas Waena sedang belanja roko di depan kios . Pagi tadi kawasan perumnas itu memanas setelah sejumlah massa KNPB mengamuk akibat tewasnya pimpinan mereka. [Mako Tabuni was shot when he was shopping and in front of the shopping area/ kiosk. This morning the area was in tension after a mass of KNPB went wild because their leader was killed.]

Mako cs, adalah orang aktivis papua yang paling vokal menyuarakan aspirasi rakyat papua untuk penentuan nasib sendiri, dia juga Menjabat sebagai Sekjen Komite Nasional Papua Barat (KNPB).
[Mako and his buddies (cs=cum suis), he was an activist that vocally voiced the Papuans aspiration for the right to self-determination. He was also the secretary general of KNPB.]

Sejumlah rumah toko (ruko), kendawaaan roda dua dan empat dibakar massa. Kepala Humas Polda Papua Ajun Komisaris Bear Polisi Johannis Nugroho membenarkan adanya kerusuhan tersebut. Namun Kapoda Menyangkal penyebab kerusuhan, Ia mengatakan belum bisa memastikan penyebab. Satuan Brimob sudah dikerahkan ke kawasan itu. [A numbers of kiosks and vehicles were set on fire by mass. The Head of Regional Police Public Relation, Adj. Sr. Comr. Johannis Nugroho justified that riot. But the Head of Regional Police denied the reason of the riot, he said the reason could not be confirmed yet.]

Menurut sejumlah saksi, Polisi datng menenbak mati pimpinan KNPB yang paling vokal itu, setelah terjadi penembakan massa datng membakar ruko dan kendaraan mereka melarikan diri ke gunung. Polisi tengah mengejar para pelaku yang lari ke arah belakang Kampus Universitas Cenderawasih, Waena. Warga panik dan lari menyelamatkan diri. [According to some witnesses, the Police came and shot dead the most vocal leader of KNPB, after the shooting the mass came and set fire on the kiosk and their vehicles, and then they escaped toward the mountain. Police are chasing the perpetrators that escaped toward the back area of Cenderwasih University Campus in Waena Residents panic and ran away for their own security.]

Diduga, kerusuhan ini masih terkait dengan serangkaian kekerasan di Jayapura, Papua, dalam beberapa pekan terakhir. Polda papua mengklaim bahwa keterlibatan Komite Nasional Papua Barat dalam serangkaian kekerasan jayapura. [It was suspected, that this riot is related with the series of violence in Jayapura, Papua, in recent weeks. Papua Regional Police claimed that KNPB was involved in the series of violence in Jayapura.]

Ketua Komte Buchtar Tabuni ditangkap Kepolisian Daerah Papua. namun keterlibatan bukthar Cs, tidak membuktikan oleh penyidik Polda Papua dan bukthar di jerat dengan kasus pengrusakan LP abepura tahun 2010 silam. [Head of KNPB, Buchtar Tabuni was arrested by Papua Regional Police, but the police could not proved that Buchtar Cs were involved and instead Buchtar was deceived with the case of damaging the Abepura prison in year 2010, ago.]

Buchtar ditangkap di Lingkaran Abepura dan kemudian di giring ke Markas Polda Papua Jalan Samratulangi, dengan pengawalan ketat anggota Reskrim dan Brimob Polda Papua. [Buchtar was arrested in Abepura roundabout area and was taken to the Head Quarter of Papua Regional Police in Samratulangi Street under a closely guard by members of Research and Criminal and Mobile Brigade of Papua Regional Police.]

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