Police name five suspects over Papua incident

Papua Police have named five suspects out of the 3rd Papuan Congress closure that led into riot yesterday. These suspects were charged over treason and weapon possession.

“We have put them under our custody and right now they are detained at the Papua police headquarters' jail,” Papua Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Wachyono said Thursday as quoted by Kompas.com.

Those five suspects are Forkorus Yaboisembut, Edison Gladius Waromi, August Makbrawen Sananay Kraar, Dominikus Sorabut and Gat Wenda.

Wachyono said that police had returned dozens of congress participants who were arrested at the time of congress closure, including 88 college students, 16 school students and 15 women.