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Police officer sells ammo to armed group
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olice officer First Brig. Tanggam Jikwa, of the Nduga Police station in Nduga regency, Papua, has been arrested and is at risk of being dismissed from his unit for selling ammunition to an armed civilian group in Wamena, Jayawijaya, Papua.
'I will fire him and he will face a legal process,' Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Yotje Mende said in Jayapura on Tuesday.
Tanggam was caught in the company of five armed criminals, among them Rambo Wonda and Rambo Tolikara, at a hotel in Wamena on Oct. 26.
Yotje also dismissed Nduga Police chief Second Insp. Pius Holahasan.
The armed civilian group led by Wonda and Tolikara is believed to be linked to several shootings in 2011 and 2012 that killed a number of police members and an Indonesian Military (TNI) soldier.
Cenderawasih Military Command chief Maj. Gen. Fransen G. Siahaan said that three TNI members with the rank of sergeant were also believed to have sold ammunition to armed civilian groups. Fransen has deployed a team to Wamena to further probe the case.
