More security 'means more trouble'
- ucanews.com staff, Jakarta
- Indonesia
- April 11, 2012
A rights group yesterday criticised a plan to increase security force presence in Papua after a shooting incident last weekend.
“We worry that this policy will be used to multiply the number of personnel (soldiers and police) in Papua, which potentially add more violence and human rights violations,” Haris Azhar, coordinator of Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) said in a statement.
The government, he said, should have a solid standard to interpret the situation in Papua, not solely on a single incident, since such policy will be a bad precedent for similar incidents in the future.
A group of men fired on an airplane as it landed at Mulia airport on April 8. A journalist was killed and the pilot, co-pilot, a mother and her son were injured.
“We worry that this policy will be used to multiply the number of personnel (soldiers and police) in Papua, which potentially add more violence and human rights violations,” Haris Azhar, coordinator of Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) said in a statement.
The government, he said, should have a solid standard to interpret the situation in Papua, not solely on a single incident, since such policy will be a bad precedent for similar incidents in the future.
A group of men fired on an airplane as it landed at Mulia airport on April 8. A journalist was killed and the pilot, co-pilot, a mother and her son were injured.
