Currently, they are still being questioned by investigators at the Yahukimo Police Headquarters in Dekai.Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA) - The Cartenz Peace Task Force and Yahukimo police on Tuesday raided a house in Dekai, Yahukimo District, Papua Pegunungan, where members of an armed separatist group were suspected to be hiding.
Papua Police chief, Inspector General Mathius Fakhiri, confirmed here that the joint team raided the house in the Obio residential complex on Pertanian Street at 2:54 a.m. Eastern Indonesian Time (WIT).
The raid was led by the head of operations of Yahukimo Police, Adjunct Commissioner Alwi Wairooy, and was carried out at two houses where the separatists were suspected to be holed up.
The team arrested 22 persons during the raid and seized sharp weapons, traditional weapons, and air rifles from them.
“Currently, they are still being questioned by investigators at the Yahukimo Police Headquarters in Dekai," he informed.
The arrested suspects include four students, two university students, and three kampong heads.
Earlier on May 4, 2023, a joint team arrested 9 persons during a raid on a house suspected of being a hiding place for an armed separatist group (KKB) on Paradiso Street in Dekai Sub-district, Yahukimo District.
A spokesperson for the Papua Police, Senior Commissioner Ignatius Benny Prabowo, said that during the raid, nine people were arrested and evidence was secured in the form of personal documents, electronic devices, sharp weapons such as arrows, axes, machetes, knives, scissors, air rifles, as well as a homemade weapon.
The Cartenz Peace Operation Task Force launched a hunt for six of the 9 separatists who allegedly murdered two residents of Statistik Dekai Street in Yahukimo District.
On April 30, the armed separatists reportedly raided the home of Yonatan Arruan and Asri Obet from Toraja, South Sulawesi, on Statistik Dekai Street.
Police officers found Arruan, a private worker, dead behind the house. Meanwhile, Obet, a farmer, was found dead in a field behind the house.
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