OPM Wandering, Gold Miners Escape Down the Mountain

OPM Wandering, Gold Miners Escape Down the Mountain

The South Sulawesi Family Harmony / KKSS management board in Mimika, Papua urges the gold panners at KaliKabur in the area of ​​PT Freeport Indonesia to immediately leave the area and go down to Timika.
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"Since a few weeks ago the TNI and Polri officials have issued an appeal that miners should go down to Timika, given the security situation at the panning site is quite vulnerable. We ask the panners to immediately leave the panning location to anticipate things that we don't want together," said the Chairman KKSS Mimika Syamsuddin Baena Bandora, in Timika, Friday.
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Syamsuddin admitted that there were quite a lot of KKSS residents who worked to get gold grains in Kali Kabur. The Runaway River that flows from the highlands at PT Freeport Indonesia's gold ore processing plant in Tembagapura also provides access to drain tailings material to be deposited in the Mimika lowlands to the East Mimika coast biir.
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At present there are thousands of people working as gold panners in the Kabur River. Syamsuddin said from the experience of previous years, the situation of kamtibmas in Papua usually warmed up towards December 1, which was celebrated as the anniversary of the Free Papua Organization (OPM) by some Papuans.
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In connection with that, he hopes the miners will heed the messages of the Kamtibmas that have been issued by the security forces together with the local government.
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"We all have to learn from the massacre of dozens of people in Nduga Regency in 2018. Likewise the cases of violence that occurred in a number of districts in the interior of Papua. We all do not expect any similar events in Mimika. So all parties must be extra vigilant to maintain personal safety each one, "he said again.
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KKSS also highlighted the case of the murder of a processed wood worker on Kilometer 7 of the Trans Timika-Paniai Road on Thursday (11/21).
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The victim on behalf of Sumarna (33), a resident from Pandeglang, Banten, was found by his colleague in a dead condition with a number of sharp gun wounds on his body around 200 meters from the Trans Timika-Paniai Road section.
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The case is being investigated by the Kuala Kencana Police Station.
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(* kabartimurnews)