Papua- News circulated in online media that Bawaslu members in Kab. Intan Jaya Otis Tipagao was taken hostage or kidnapped by an Armed Criminal Group.
The action carried out by the KKB led to renderings of voting in Intan Jaya Regency. “It was postponed, it should have been scheduled for February 14 2024, then it was postponed to February 23 2024,”
Otis Tipagao, when at the hearing to win the results of the 2024 Legislative Election at the Constitutional Court (MK) Building, stated that this was the first time he had entered the village area in Intan Jaya.
“Indeed, if I explain, the terrain in Intan Jaya Regency is truly terrifying. It was also my first time in my village and it was light. “I was stopped at that time, arrested from 7 to 3 in the afternoon,” said Otis.
Otis Tipagao was released or released because he gave a sum of money worth Rp. 150 million, then given another around Rp. 25 million.
This is very sad, considering that the Armed Criminal Group does not have the goal of liberating Papua, but has other goals.
People’s resistance to a country that wants to be free from colonialism is to carry out military resistance in the field and fight through the UN. However, sadly the KKB is not an organization that wants to fight for independence, but wants to carry out acts of violation of law in Papua.
