Napoleon likely died of a heart attack while attending an event at Horex Hotel in Sentani, Head of Operational Support at the BIN-Papua Office Colonel Rahmat Puji Susetyo informed ANTARA here on Monday evening.
Susetyo acknowledged that he was present along with Napoleon when he might have experienced a heart attack. He was then got rushed to the Dian Harapan Hospital in Waena and was confirmed dead at 6:12 p.m. local time.
The senior agent's coffin was transported to Jakarta by Garuda Indonesia, he remarked, adding that Napoleon had headed the BIN-Papua Office twice.
Napoleon was replaced Maj. Gen. I Gusti Putu Danny Karya Nugraha, but he was again assigned to head the BIN-Papua Office following Nugraha's death in an ambush by armed Papuans on April 25, 2021.
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ANTARA reported earlier that Nugraha's death has left Indonesia aggrieved.
On April 25, 2021, Papuan separatist terrorists operating in Beoga Sub-district, Puncak District, Papua Province, ambushed BIN head Nugraha while he was visiting Dambet Village.
Nugraha, who was accompanied by seven security personnel, was shot in a gunfight with the armed rebels.
His death would never dissuade intelligence officers and security personnel from backing down in their fight against the armed separatist and terrorist groups in the province, BIN's Deputy VII Wawan Hari Purwanto asserted.
"This incident will not deal a blow to the outlook and morale of the intelligence officers and security personnel in addressing all types of national security threats," he stressed.
The fall of the BIN-Papua Office head on duty has demonstrated the sacrifice of Indonesian intelligence officers in defending Indonesia's sovereignty, he reiterated.
"This incident has also become a symbol of BIN's services in enforcing laws as a frontliner in the national security system," he stated.
Nugraha was laid to rest at the Kalibata Heroes Cemetery in South Jakarta on Tuesday (April 27, 2021), though his noble fight for defending Indonesia's sovereignty in Papua must go on.
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Translator: Evarukdijati, Rahmad Nasution
Editor: Suharto
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