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Komentar: Berita tentang adanya kontak senjata antara TNI dan OPM dijawab dengan penambahan pasukan pada hari Sabtu 3/5. Menurut masyarakat Kuyawage berita tersebut tidak benar dan provokasi. Pasukan yang dikirim dengan empat kali penerbangan helikopter tersebut sudah mengunci masyarakat sehingga masyarakat yang berada di hutan sekitar Kuyawage menjadi terjepit. Pulang ke kampung di tembak, lari jauh ke dalam hutan juga di tembak.

Salam, ENS.............

Moderator


Harian Cenderawasih Pos, 05 April 2003

 

Personil TNI di Pos Kuwayage Ditambah

 

WAMENA-Sekitar pukul 11.30 Wit helly milik TNI-AD tiba di Home Base Kodim 1702/Jwy setelah kurang lebih 45 menit berada di Desa Kuwayage untuk mengambil satu pucuk senjata moser dan amunisinya serta beberapa barang bukti yang berhasil di dapatkan kembali oleh anggota TNI di Pos Kuwayage pada (02/05).

Danrem 172/pwy Kolonel Inf. Agus Mulyadi yang dikonfirmasikan ulang soal diperolehnya satu puncuk senjata moser serta puluhan amunisi dan dokumen-dokumen penting yang dapat digunakan untuk penyidikan lebih intensif menyangkut perkembangan dan pergerakan kelompok KSB di wilayah Kabupaten Jayawijaya.

Menurut Danrem penemuan ini menunjukan bahwa benar ada kelompok-kelompok KSB di wilayah bagian Kabupaten Jayawijaya. Hal tersebut bisa di buktikan selain senjata juga beberapa dokumen penting lain-lainnya. Untuk itu Danrem menghimbau pada seluruh lapisan masyarakat yang ada di daerah ini dari seluruh elemen agar proaktif menjaga kestabilan dan persatuan serta kesatuan bangsa yang diwadahi dengan NKRI dari tindakan oknum-oknum yang tidak bertanggungjawab.

Danrem berharapa, kelompok-kelompok masyarakat yang sampai saat ini masih berselisih paham dalam wadah NKRI agar bisa mau duduk bersama dimeja perundingan dan dengan kepala dingin mencari solusi terbaik agar lapisan masyarakat yang selama ini merasa tertinggal dalam segala bidang dapat menikmati pembangunan.

Selanjutnya saat dikonfirmasikan soal beberapa pasukan sekarang yang di tempatkan di Pos Kuwayage. Danrem Agus Mulyadi menjelaskan, pada umumnya Pos Kuwayage ditempatkan kurang lebih 50 personil TNI, kemudian karena dalam pengamatan di daerag tersebut masih terlalu rawan, makanya tambah lagi sekitar 30 personel dari satgas gabungan. Keberadaan pihak TNI di daerah tersebut tidak lain untuk mencari senjata milik Kodim yang baru-baru ini dibawa lari oleh kelompok KSB atau TPN-OPM, tegasnya. Selanjutnya pihak TNI juga membantu untuk memulihkan lapisan masyarakat penduduk Desa Kuwayage ke daerah tersebut untuk menstabilitasi keberadaan wilayah agar daerah tersebut benar-benar aman. (her)


WPNews, 21 April 2003, 21:32 GMT

 

Gen TPN PB Mathias Wenda: Wamena Kodim 1702 Commander Killed the two Indonesian TNI personnel, and one TPN/OPM member

That is the correct version of the story from report that came to the TPN/OPM Headquarter.


Gen TPN PB Mathias Wenda, the Commander in Chief of the Liberation Army of Free Papua Movement (TPN/OPM) blames the TNI KODIM 1702 Wamena Commander of killng his own personnel and one TPN member in an interview by phone today.

Following his previous statement on the incident that: "Troops (TNI) are Trouble-Makers and Killers in West Papua. If so-called "Democratic Nations" are Concerned About Sufferings of Iraqi People, Why Can They Ignore our Sufferings for Four Decades Already?", he once again stated, based on his information gathering and report received in his headquarter from TPN/OPM troops in the field that in fact the commander of KODIM 1702 Wamena himself killed his own personnel because of his frustration and anger that they both did not guard the armoury and that they failed to report the incident as quick as possible.

Below is the interview by Members of the Collective Editorial Board (CEB) WPNews.

WPNews: Good evening General.

Gen.TPN PB Mathias Wenda (TPN/OPM): Good Morning.

WPNews: We would like to thank you for your time and help in giving us information on the other side of the stories we hear from the Indonesian officials. Today, we would like to get further information on the incident in Wamena and the Indonesian military retaliation

TPN/OPM: I told you already that the Indonesian army, particularly TNI/Kopassus is creating the trouble. This just happened after some days they were withdrawn from West Papua. There is no reason for them to come back, so they need to create and generate the reason to come back. That is exactly happening now.

WPNews: Last time you denied that your troops were involved in the attack that killed two Indonesian army and one of TPN/OPM members was also killed. A week later, another member by the name of Yapenus Murib, a member of TPN/OPM was also killed.

Last time you told us that you have no report yet to clarify that your troops were involved in the attack. Now it appears that they were involved.

TPN/OPM: How did you know that they were involved. There is no report to me that my troops were involved. TPN/OPM commanders in the region denied their involvement, except the blame from TNI commanders in Jakarta. They do this kind of thing all the time. You are not asking them even though they are not ruling out that their troops were involved. I am not in a position to agree with your expectation that my people, or rather your were involved. 

I suggested you and you promised me to contact Gen. Titus Murib last. Did you contact him?

WPNews: Yes, we did have contact, but not to Gen. Murib directly. He denied his involvement in this incident.

TPN/OPM: So, what is the proof for you asking me the same question, or making the same statement as the Indonesians?

WPNews: Main reason is because we want to clarify the truth of the story, not necessarily agree with the statements from Indonesia, but also not to lie to our readers. You ever told us in our previous interview that this case/ war is between the "TRUTH" and "LIES". So, that is exactly what we are doing.

TPN/OPM: Look, my son, the truth is this: "TPN/OPM are not the killers of innocent people." Well, you might recall back to other acts carried out by TPN/OPM members in the past. But remember that in the last 10-15 years, we have been doing our best not to act like Indonesians or other liberation movements in the world who also kill their own people and cause trouble. We have a very high moral value that you cannot compare to any other movements in the world. That is the truth! That truth means that we are not part of the murders of two Americans in Tembagapura, human rights activists at the border areas, Theys Eluay, and the last ones in Wamena.

WPNews: You are telling us that TPN/OPM members did not kill the two Indonesian TNI members?

TPN/OPM: Do you think TPN/OPM shot the Indonesian TNI member along the border area? Do you think TPN/OPM bombed Bali, killed people in Moluccas, Poso and Jakarta? These are immoral acts, we are not that immoral.

WPNews: Is there any suggestion from your side, of who actually carried out the action?

TPN/OPM: The answer is this list of questions: 
1. Who want to see that West Papua is not safe and that there is no peace here? 
2. Who would like to see more bloodbaths here? 
3. Who want to see more troops coming into West Papua? 
4. Who want blood and more lives to be taken from Papua soil? 
5. Who want Papuans to die everyday?

I asked you these same questions last time, right?

WPNews: Now we are coming to the same question as last time: "So, you are suggesting that TPN/OPM is not to blame for this incident?

TPN/OPM: Let me go back to my answer in the last interview with you. "I am saying that as far as all of us know, Indonesian troops (TNI) are trouble-makers and killers in West Papua. And that it is them that want to see no peace or Peace Zone for and in West Papua. They want war here. That was what I said before. How can we declare a Peace Zone when the people ourselves are hunted all over and killed on daily basis? And for 40 years?"

WPNews: As the Commander-in-Chief of TPN/OPM, you should have a report by now from your commanders in the region about the incident. Can you give us information that is important for us to know up to now?

TPN/OPM: I received some reports, mostly by post and phone calls that in fact there are two possibilities of the actors. 

One is that local politicians used so-called "unknown gunmen" or "mysterious gangs". The reason is power struggle among themselves, by funding different "gangs" within the Indonesian military and police as well as the red-and-white Indonesian militia. As long as these "gangs" get the money, they do not care if their actions are politically beneficial or disastrous to Indonesia. What all they need now is "money", to survive in the crises.

Two is that the TNI/Kopassus created the incident to justify their re-deployment to West Papua. They cannot survive economically in Java, they must come back to West Papua to survive in this economic crises. To generate their income, they create the conflicts. 

 

There is only one goal for them: to generate income for them. They do not care of the NKRI's future in principle. What they care is their survival as human beings as the army now loosing its power and cannot generate that much income for its operations. All of them are not well-paid. So, they should generate income themselves. 

Only two possibilities. I cannot see it politically beneficial for TPN/OPM members to act in this kind of situation. The world's attention is on Iraq and war against terrorism. TPN/OPM now is not in a position to act that stupid.

WPNews: But, we think...

TPN/OPM: But what?

WPNews: But what about the murder of two TNI members?

TPN/OPM: Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Do you think you can justify your arguments just by pointing out those two Indonesians who died? They can sacrifice their members from TNI/Kopassus for killing Theys Eluay. 

Did you read news yesterday about Col. Hartomo? (Col Hartomo was the commander of TNI/Kopassus at the time Theys was assassinated). He is sacrificed for the nation. Do you know about legal proceedings against those who brutally killed East Timorese? Do you know that most commanders in West Papua now are ex-East Timor Commanders? Why aren't they punished? Why can't the courts interrogate or even bring to court Gen. Wiranto as the Supreme Commander of the TNI/Polri at that time? Why did they sentenced free all generals carried out acts of murders in East Timor? Do you know they sacrificed Hambali and Jihad Militia and other militia groups to cover-up TNI/Polri acts in Bali, Moluccas, Poso and Jakarta? 

Do you know the prices the two TNI members paid for the whole Indonesia? They are sworn to die in defending the unitary republic of Indonesia (NKRI), that is their job. And the commanders must kill them, if they know that not killing them will be politically a disaster for NKRI. 

WPNews: So you are suggesting that the KODIM Wamena 1702 Commander actually killed them?

TPN/OPM: Did you hear what another eye-witness said? He said this: "When they came and took the ammunitions and guns, I came to the commander and reported. We went there and the fighting started. Then the commander killed the TPN/OPM member. What is the next story? Nothing! He is not allowed to testify! Why? That will open more doors to the "TRUTH" of the incident.

How can shootings happen for an hour and local villagers did not know that? How can the electricity went of exactly when the armoury was attacked until all the attackers left the site? How can they return ten guns, just within a week of the incident? They still have more guns, but they want to kill and terrorise more people, that is why they are deliberately keeping it secret.

The "TRUTH" is this: "He killed the two members of TNI to complete the drama. Those two guys and the commander knew the plans, and they carried out the plans. And those two guys should go because their task in defending NKRI was completed. The drama was ended, so they should go, just as simple as that. 

The goal is to re-deploy TNI/Kopassus troops. Look, just watch! If that does not happen, more non-organic troops will be more in Wamena. 

The purpose is to secure the spending of special autonomy money in Wamena. There are more than enough in Timika, Port Numbay, Manokwari, and along the PNG-West Papua border. Another resistance stronghold in West Papua is Wamena, and therefore, they need more troops, not their withdrawal. 

What is wrong for the commander for killing those two members from his unit, as long as NKRI is still politically beneficiary? The death of two TNI should happen, or if not, it should be generated to happen for the sake of NKRI.

That is the correct version of the story from report that came to the TPN/OPM Headquarter.

WPNews, 04 April 2003, 15:02 GMT

Gen TPN PB Mathias Wenda: Indonesian Troops (TNI) are Trouble-Makers and Killers in West Papua

If so-called "Democratic Nations" are Concerned About Sufferings of Iraqi People, Why Can They Ignore our Sufferings for Four Decades Already?

In relation to the attack by Papuans, who were suspected to be members of the TPN/OPM, under the command of Regional IX the Star Mountains of the TPN/OPM, WPNews contacted another phone-interview with the Commander in Chief of the TPN/OPM, Gen. TPN PB Mathias Wenda.

As he stated before in response to the war in Wutung, PNG-West Papua border on 18 December 2002, (http://www.melanesianews.org/tpnopm/progress/191202-mwenda.htm), this time he questions: "Do you know trouble-makers and killers in West Papua?"

He restated his statement again, "TPN/OPM is responsible to the Papuan people to get the colonial power out from West Papua, to regain the independent State of West Papua, which was declared on 1 December 1961 and proclaimed on 1 July 1971. It has the duty to face the killers of human beings and the destroyers of the nature in West Papua soil."

Below is the interview by Members of the Collective Editorial Board (CEB) WPNews.

WPNews: Good afternoon General.

Gen.TPN PB Mathias Wenda (TPN/OPM): Good Morning, it is after 01:00AM in the morning here.

WPNews: We come to you again to ask some questions around the attack in Wamena, suspected by the TPN/OPM members under the Command of Gen. TPN PB Tithus Murib.

TPN/OPM: Are you asking me about who these people are?

WPNews: Yes, are they TPN/OPM troops?

TPN/OPM: You know well, TPN/OPM is not that well structured as modern armed organisations you know in the world. We are very loosely organised. I have not yet received any reports from Gen. Murib, but I would suggest you to contact them instead of myself.

WPNews: We will try to contact Gen. Murib. But, do you think this attack is purely done by the TPN/OPM troops?

TPN/OPM: Who can justify that? Who want to see that West Papua is not safe and that there is no peace here? Who would like to see more bloodbaths here? Who want to see more troops coming into West Papua? Who want blood and more lives to be taken from Papua soil? Absolutely not the Papuans. We have enough people died. Who want Papuans to die everyday?

WPNews: So, you are suggesting that TPN/OPM is not to blame for this incident?

TPN/OPM: I am saying that as far as all of us know, Indonesian troops (TNI) are trouble-makers and killers in West Papua. And that it is them that want to see no peace or Peace Zone for and in West Papua. They want war here. That was what I said before. How can we declare a Peace Zone when the people ourselves are hunted all over and killed on daily basis? And for 40 years?

WPNews: What will you say if finally it becomes clear that your troops did it?

TPN/OPM: Well, the army in West Papua are to kill. No army in the world is for peace, nonsense. Armed Forces means the state's apparatus for war, war means killing each other. So, if my troops acted to defend their lives, I have no reason to blame them. Only if they shot civilians or created troubles for the villagers, I will find it difficult to claim that we are for the people and defending the rights of the people to live freely and peacefully. But let me make it clear, that TNI have been using Papuans to create so many troubles in West Papua, and we need to find out the reason behind it.

WPNews: Do you have any clue of why?

TPN/OPM: It is obvious, very, very obvious.

WPNews: Can you tells now?

TPN/OPM: They attacked civilians in Wutung, their own ambassador to PNG, and their own member of TNI troops, to justify that they need more troops along the border. They attacked and killed civilians in Tembagapura, killing two American teachers. They killed Theys Eluay, Arnold Ap, William Onde, Thom Wainggai, John Mambor and many others, men, women, adult, young, educated, villagers, all you know.

So the scenario, the most probable one, is really related to the plan by the TNI some days ago to deploy thousands of troops, related to the plan to expand and develop Navy Base in West Papua, on going action of deviding the province into three and then seven, and all these. How can they do that? First they need to show to the world, and to the government, that "Yes, West Papua is not secure, there is no peace, but war. Therefore, West Papua needs more troops. Therefore, the TNI can do business of killing people and taking the resources from here.They need troops to secure the government's plans are carried out without significant rebelion and arguments from the Papuans." They need to show their power to the Papuans and more troops deployment is an intimidating act.

So, it is obvious that this is another scenario they have to justify deployments of more battle-troops. That is the scenario, all villagers in West Papua know this. The world knows this, all democratic and civlised nations know this.

WPNews: What do you want to say to the Papuans?

TPN/OPM: I have nothing to say to the Papuans. They all know I would say to them, as they are myself and I am themselves. What I have is to say to the President of the USA and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. If they are really campaigning for democracy and human rights, they need to look at 40 years of suffering here.

They clearly know that Indonesia is not a democratic country. They all know that human rights records in Indonesia is extremely poort. They know that many Papuans have been killed. They know that Papuans are under continuous intimidation, terror, rape, torture and murders. They all know that militia activities are openly carried out here all over Indonesia. They have learned that they are not safe here. They have been killed all over Indonesia: Tembagapura, Bali, Dili, Poso and Jakarta. 

If these guys are really defending for human rights and democracy, they should do someting about this nation and country. If they do not, then let us say that they are not really for democracy and the rights of Iraqi people, but there is something else behind it. You know what it is.

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Jumat, 04 April 2003, 18:53 WIB

Tidak Tertutup Kemungkinan Keterlibatan Anggota TNI

Jakarta, KCM

Tidak tertutup kemungkinan adanya keterlibatan anggota TNI dalam kasus penyerangan gerakan Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) ke Markas Kodim 1702 Jayawijaya, Wamena, Papua, Jumat (4/4) dini hari. Namun hal itu harus dibuktikan terlebih dahulu. 

Demikian ditegaskan Kepala Pusat Penerangan (Kapuspen ) TNI Mayjen TNI Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin dalam keterangan pers di Mabes TNI, Cilangkap, Jumat (4/4).

Menurutnya, hari Jumat pagi Panglima TNI Jenderal TNI Endriartono Sutarto telah memerintahkan agar dilakukan penyelidikan ke dalam terhadap kemungkinan adanya orang dalam yang terlibat kasus tersebut. Hal ini juga dimaksudkan untuk pengamanan internal TNI sendiri.

"Kita harus teliti.Pendeteksian ke dalam itu perlu untuk penguatan tubuh TNI. Siapa tahu, kita tidak boleh katakan tidak ada yang terlibat sebelum memastikan memang tidak ada yang terlibat," tandasnya.

Di samping itu, lanjutnya, Panglima TNI juga menginstruksikan agar dilakukan penyelidikan dalam rangka pendeteksian kembali gerakan separatis Papua. Juga mewaspadai kemungkinan peningkatan aktivitas gerakan separatis dalam kaitan keamanan nasional. 

Dia menambahkan, TNI yakin proses pengejaran terhadap pelaku oleh Kodam akan membuahkan hasil. Sehingga senjata yang dicuri bisa direbut kembali. "Panglima TNI juga menginstruksikan untuk segera menemukan siapa yang bertanggungjawab tehadap kegiatan tersebut," kata Sjafrie.

Dengan adanya kejadian tersebut, OPM tidak boleh dipandang sebelah mata oleh TNI. Apalagi beberapa tahun terakhir ini OPM telah beberapa kali melancarkan serangannya baik kepada TNI maupun terhadap warga sipil.

Ditegaskan oleh Kapuspen, walaupun terjadi penyerangan, Mabes TNI belum berencana menambah pasukan di Papua. (dna)

http://www.kompas.com/utama/news/0304/04/080041.htm 
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Jumat, 04 April 2003, 15:54 WIB

OPM Rampas 29 Senjata dan 3500 Amunisi -  

Wapres: TNI Harus Dialog untuk Kasus Wamena

Jakarta, KCM

Wakil Presiden (Wapres) Hamzah Haz mengemukakan, selain melakukan penanganan secara represif untuk kasus perampasan puluhan senjata organik dari gudang senjata Kodim 1702 Wamena, Papua, aparat keamanan pun harus mengadakan dialog dengan rakyat setempat. Dialog ini diharapkan dapat mengungkap akar permasalahan dan keinginan dari rakyat Papua, utamanya setelah pemberlakukan otonomi khusus.

"Sebab bagaimana pun harus dilihat akar permasalahan, jadi tidak diselesaikan secara parsial. Lihat apa yang sebenarnya diinginkan, kan dulu sudah diberi daerah Papua dengan otonomi khusus. Jadi perlu juga dialog, bukan hanya mengatasi dengan yang bersifat kekerasan," ungkap Wapres usai ibadah sholat Jumat di Mesjid Assa’adatain, Ciganjur, Jakarta, Jumat (4/4).

Wapres memandang, diadakannya dialog, yang tidak hanya dilakukan oleh pihak sipil tapi juga militer dan Polri, akan menumbuhkan keyakinan dan kepercayaan diri masyarakat Papua mengenai penuntasan kasus ini. Selain itu langkah ini pun dapat membantu aparat keamanan untuk menegakkan kredibilitasnya. "Bukan hanya kalangan sipil, tapi juga kalangan TNI dan Polri yang harus lebih banyak melakukan dialog hingga dapat memberikan keyakinan adanya penanganan ini akan menimbulkan confidence dari masyarakat," tandas Hamzah.

Sementara, mengenai puluhan pucuk senjata yang hilang dan dikhawatirkan akan digukanan oleh OPM untuk melanjutkan aksinya, Wapres menyerahkan hal tersebut pada pucuk pimpinan TNI dan Polri. Ia berharap dalam sidang kabinet mendatang, baik Kapolri Jenderal (Pol) Da’i Bachtiar maupun Panglima TNI Jenderal Endiartono Sutarto akan memberikan laporannya.

 

Penjelasan Pangdam

Pangdam XVII Trikora Mayjen TNI Nurdin Zainal mengatakan kelompok yang menyerang Kodim 1702 Jayawijaya, Jumat (4/4) dinihari, telah membunuh dua anggota Kodim, merampas 29 pucuk senjata api, dan 3500 butir amunisi.

"Mereka adalah kelompok separatis bersenjata yang menjadi musuh TNI, karena itu TNI akan terus mengejar mereka semaksimal mungkin," ujar Pangdam kepada Kantor Berita Antara di Wamena, Jumat (4/4) siang, sesaat setelah meninjau lokasi penyerangan di kompleks markas Kodim 1702 Jayawijaya, di Jalan Yos Sudarso, Wamena. Dalam peninjauan itu Pangdam didampingi Danrem 172 Kolonel (Inf) Agus Mulyadi, Asisten Intel Kolonel (Pal) Fx. Mardjono dan Asisten Operasi Kolonel (Inf) Sudirman K.

Untuk pengejaran itu dimobilisasi pasukan Kostrad 413 Solo yang saat ini berada di Wamena, didukung oleh sebuah pesawat helikopter jenis Bell yang ditarik dari Timika. "Kami akan mengejar dan menangkap mereka untuk bertanggung jawab atas segala tindakan mereka," tandas Nurdin.

Sumber Kantor Berita Antara di Kodim 1702 Jayawijaya mengatakan, senjata yang berhasil dirampas itu terdiri atas senjata SP1 sebanyak 13 pucuk berikut 1.500 butir amunisi, jenis M16 sebanyak 13 pucuk berikut 2000 butir amunisi, dan postil sebanyak 3 pucuk.

 

Barang bukti

Tak jauh dari lokasi penyerangan, pada Jumat sekitar pukul 07.00 WIT ditemukan sebuak noken (tas tradisional dari rajutan kulit kayu) berisi 110 butir peluru SP1, berikut kartu anggota laskar Papua Barat milik Mikael Murib, dan KTP milik, Nugagas Murib. KTP itu dikeluarkan di Distrik Tiom 6 Agustus 2002, serta sebuah kartu anggota lainnya milik, Alpius Murib, AMD, SE.

Selain itu juga ditemukan sebuah catatan nama sebanyak enam orang yang diduga merupakan nama anggota dari kelompok yang melakukan penyerangan tersebut. Sementara di dalam gudang senjata di sisi jenazah dari penyerang ditemukan sebilah parang dan linggis yang diduga digunakan untuk membongkar gudang senjata. Dari temuan barang bukti itu maka semakin memperkuat dugaan bahwa kelompok penyerang adalah kelompok Kelly Kwalik dan Titus Murib yang saat ini berada tak jauh dari Wamena. 

Sementara itu, jenazah korban penyerangan dari anggota Kodim 1702 Jayawijaya yaitu Lettu A. Napitupulu, Pasi Teritorial dan Sertu Ruben Lena, penjaga Gudang Senjata, saat ini masih disemayamkan di Makodim 1702. Sedang korban dari kelompok penyerang yang hingga saat ini belum diketahui identitasnya telah dibawa oleh Polisi ke RSUD Wamena untuk diotopsi.

Menurut rencana jenazah Lettu A. Napitupulu, akan dimakamkan di Bantul Yogyakarta, sedang Sertu Ruben Lena akan dimakamkan di Nabire. Kedua jenazah korban akan dibawa dengan pesawat carteran Fokker 27 milik PT Trigana. Hingga saat ini situasi di Wamena tetap tenang, dan kegiatan di masyarakat berjalan lancar.(nik/glo)
http://www.kompas.com/utama/news/0304/04/050043.htm 
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Jumat, 04 April 2003, 14:55 WIB

Kapolri: Sudah Ada Indikasi Penyerangan Sejak Januari

Laporan : Lily Bertha Kartika

Jakarta, KCM

Kapolri Jenderal Pol Da’i Bachtiar mengatakan, berdasarkan informasi yang diterimanya dari Polda Papua, bahwa penyerangan yang dilakukan oleh Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) dan merampas senjata di gudang Kodim 1702 Wamena dinihari tadi sudah ada indikasinya sejak Januari lalu.

"Sepertinya ini dalam rangka mereka (OPM) mencari senjata dan dalam penyerangan itu ada beberapa senjata dibawa lari," ungkapnya kepada wartawan usai shalat Jumat di Mabes Polri, Jakarta, Jumat (4/4).

Terkait dengan penyerangan tersebut, Polda Papua, menurut Da’i akan meningkatkan kewaspadaan pengamanan di wilayah setempat, namun sampai sejauh ini belum ada rencana penambahan personel Brimob.

Menurutnya, saat ini kekuatan Brimob yang ada di Papua sekitar satu SSK dan sisanya Brimob yang di-BKO-kan dari tempat lain. "Senjata yang hilang itu, yang saya dapat informasinya adalah beberapa senjata panjang dan senapan ringan, tetapi sampai saat ini yang kita ketahui, mereka (OPM) kan sembunyi dan berlari ke sana kemari di hutan-hutan. Yang jelas kita akan tingkatkan kewaspadaan dan berkoordinasi dengan TNI," ungkapnya. (ima)

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Jumat, 04 April 2003, 6:29 WIB

Kelompok Bersenjata Bongkar Gudang Senjata Makodim Jayawijaya

Jakarta, Jumat

Dua anggota Kodim 1702 Jayawijaya, Provinsi Papua dan seorang anggota kelompok penyerang bersenjata tewas dalam tembak-menembak di Makodim tersebut, Jumat (4/4) dini hari.

Komandan Kodim 1702 Jayawijaya, Letkol Inf Masrumsyah yang dihubungi pagi ini menjelaskan, peristiwa tersebut terjadi ketika aliran listrik di lingkungan Makodim padam dan seorang perwira piket sedang melakukan patroli di gudang senjata.


Pada saat perwira patroli memeriksa gudang, ia melihat gudang senjata sudah dibongkar oleh sekelompok orang dan sesaat kemudian terjadi tembak-menembak antara anggota Kodim dengan kelompok penyerang tersebut.

Dua anggota TNI yang meninggal adalah Letnan Satu Inf Napitupulu, Pasi Teritorial dan penjaga gudang senjata, serta Sertu Rubenlena. Napitupulu meninggal di Rumah Sakit Wamena, dan Rubenlena meninggal di tempat. Sementara kelompok penyerang yang tewas belum diketahui identitasnya. Menurut Dandim, kelompok penyerang diperkirakan berjumlah 10 orang. Jumlah senjata yang diperkirakan hilang atau diambil kelompok tersebut sebanyak 15 pucuk.

Atas kejadian tersebut, aparat kini sedang melakukan pengejaran, satu regu pasukan Kostrad 413/BM diturunkan untuk mengejar kelompok penyerang yang diduga melarikan diri ke arah barat menuju Danau Habema.

Kelompok penyerang diduga berasal dari kelompok GPK Titusmurib, keberadaan kelompok tersebut sudah diketahui dan diperkirakan bersembunyi di sekitar Danau Habema Wamena. "Regu lainnya yang sudah diturunkan untuk mengejar pelaku penyerangan tersebut, kini terus menyisir areal sekitar desa Waleji," ungkap Masrumsyah.

Menurut rencana, pagi ini Pangdam VII Trikora Mayjen TNI Nurdin Zainal akan tiba di Wamena untuk melihat dan meninjau Tempat Kejadian Perkara (TKP). (Ant/ima)

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Jumat, 04 April 2003, 15:09 WIB

KSAD: OPM Harus Ditumpas

Laporan : Angelina Maria Donna

Jakarta, KCM

Kepala Staf TNI Angkatan Darat (KSAD) Jenderal TNI Ryamizard Ryacudu menyatakan, Organisasi Papua Merdeka OPM) harus segera ditumpas karena telah merugikan Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia.

Pernyataan KSAD tersebut dilontarkan menyusul penyerangan OPM ke Kodim 1702 Jayawijaya, Wamena, Papua, Jumat dinihari, yang mengakibatkan dua anggota TNI AD tewas. "Jadi gerakan itu harus ditumpas titik," ujarnya di Mabes TNI AD, Jakarta, Jumat (4/4).


Dalam penyerangan tersebut, kelompok OPM merampas 29 pucuk senjata yang terdiri atas 13 pucuk M-16, 13 pucuk SP-1, 3 pistol, serta ribuan amunisi.

Menurut KSAD, pihaknya akan terus melakukan pengejaran terhadap OPM dan mencari senjata yang telah dicrui sampai ketemu. Ketika ditanya apakah dirinya yakin pelaku berasal dari kelompok OPM, KSAD menegaskan, tidak diragukan lagi pelakunya adalah OPM, tetapi belum diketahui kelompoknya. 

"Itulah Kopassus disuruh pulang, ngga ada Kopassus mereka merajalela lagi. Masak kita dicegat oleh bangsa sendiri, masak kita mau lihat tentara kita berguguran terus," demikian KSAD.(nik)

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