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Sat, 04/17/2010 - 21:47
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JAKARTA AUTHORITIES DENY HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS MISSING
Jakarta, April 17 (ANTARA) - Jakarta authorities have denied that hundreds of public order officers went missing in the Tanjung Priok violence which occurred last Wednesday (April 14).
"There has been no report of hundreds of public order officers having gone missing, there is no such a report," Cucu Ahmad Kurnia, a spokesman of Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said here on Saturday.
It was not possible for 870 officers to go missing without anybody reporting it, he said.
All personnel sent to Koja had returned to their respective homes, except those injured or who had died, Cucu said.
Cucu Ahmad Kurnia dimissed the statement made earlier by the head of the Public Order Agency (Satpol PP), Hotman Sinambela, that 870 officers had disappeared.
Hotman had said, of a total 1,750 officers sent to Koja, only around 877 had made their retreat by boats.
"I ask the Koja community, if they are keeping the bodies of dead officers, please return them. Even if it is only their heads, we will accept them," Hotman said here Saturday.
The Tanjung Priok violence erupted on Wednesday morning when about a thousand public order officers (Satpol PP) marched to the graveyard complex where there is a tomb of respected Muslim scholar, Habib Hasan bin Muhammnad Al Hadad, better known as Mbah Priok, who spread Islam in Jakarta in the 18th century.
The Priok violence caused 134 people to be hospitalized due to serious and light injuries. The victims consisted of 10 police officers, 69 public order officers, and 55 civilians.
Three public order officers identified as M. Tajudin, W. Soepono and Israel Jaya, were killed in the conflict between public order officers and local residents.
Besides the human casualties, 46 vehicles belonging to public order officers and the police had been burned in the clashes involving thousands of people resisting the eviction attempt at the revered tomb complex in Koja, North Jakarta.
"There has been no report of hundreds of public order officers having gone missing, there is no such a report," Cucu Ahmad Kurnia, a spokesman of Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said here on Saturday.
It was not possible for 870 officers to go missing without anybody reporting it, he said.
All personnel sent to Koja had returned to their respective homes, except those injured or who had died, Cucu said.
Cucu Ahmad Kurnia dimissed the statement made earlier by the head of the Public Order Agency (Satpol PP), Hotman Sinambela, that 870 officers had disappeared.
Hotman had said, of a total 1,750 officers sent to Koja, only around 877 had made their retreat by boats.
"I ask the Koja community, if they are keeping the bodies of dead officers, please return them. Even if it is only their heads, we will accept them," Hotman said here Saturday.
The Tanjung Priok violence erupted on Wednesday morning when about a thousand public order officers (Satpol PP) marched to the graveyard complex where there is a tomb of respected Muslim scholar, Habib Hasan bin Muhammnad Al Hadad, better known as Mbah Priok, who spread Islam in Jakarta in the 18th century.
The Priok violence caused 134 people to be hospitalized due to serious and light injuries. The victims consisted of 10 police officers, 69 public order officers, and 55 civilians.
Three public order officers identified as M. Tajudin, W. Soepono and Israel Jaya, were killed in the conflict between public order officers and local residents.
Besides the human casualties, 46 vehicles belonging to public order officers and the police had been burned in the clashes involving thousands of people resisting the eviction attempt at the revered tomb complex in Koja, North Jakarta.
