Man died after being shot by Jayapura police

The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Wed, 05/06/2009 9:23 AM  |  National

Agus Ohee, a resident of Harapan village, Jayapura regency, Papua, who was shot by local police during an attempted arrest, died in Sentani hospital on Wednesday morning.

Agus was reportedly shot at around 5 a.m. local time (3 a.m Jakarta time) on Wednesday and was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at around 6 a.m..

Jayapura Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Mathius Fakhiri told Antara news agency said the incident occurred when local police attempted to arrest a local resident Salmon Ohee, who was drunk and was blocking a main road.

Agus, who was trying to stop the police officers, attacked one of the officer with a bayonet blade. An officer later fired a shot at his leg.

Following the incident, local residents are still blocking the road, which is the only access to Sentani Airport, with stones and logs.

Hundreds of passengers missed their flight, after failing to go through the blockade.

At the time of writing, local police are still making persuasion efforts to open the blockade. (dre)
 
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Borsa — Tue, 06/23/2009 - 4:45pm

P. Borsa
We all can imagine the type of "persuasion" that the police uses when they are dealing with problems in West Papua. To shoot someone in the leg after they have been captured is so common in Indonesia that you can see it everyday on television. That's the punishment for prisoners at the hands of the police in that peaceful, democratic country. They say this is to prevent them fleeing.

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