After attending a coordination meeting on political, legal and security affairs here on Tuesday, Timur said "I think all community activities, so long as they are not carried out in violation of laws and regulations, are allowed. I think we will give them room for it. But we will remain on guard to ensure security."
He said the police had already taken anticipatory measures by deploying personnel in regional police commands.
"We have instructed regional police chiefs to take measures to optimize public participation in maintaining public order and security in the respective neighbourhoods," he said.
The national police plan to send a company of Mobile Brigade personnel from North Sulawesi to help ensure security in the region.
"We are ready to send a company of Mobile Brigade personnel from North Sulawesi to help security maintenance in Jayapura," National Police spokesman Inspector General Saud Usman Nasution said after attending the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the police and the BPKP (government auditing agency).
He said some 800 personnel were now still on duty in Papua. The number did not include security personnel stationed at PT Freeport Indonesia numbering 888.
"Besides them there are still 300 plus 200 additional personnel to help organic units there," he said.(*)
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