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Islands in focus: Kopassus members named murder suspects
The Surakarta Military Police (Denpom) in Central Java named 16 members of the Armyâs Special Forces (Kopassus) in an assault against an Indonesian Military (TNI) Air Force member at the Bima karaoke parlor in Sukoharjo, Central Java
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he Surakarta Military Police (Denpom) in Central Java named 16 members of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) in an assault against an Indonesian Military (TNI) Air Force member at the Bima karaoke parlor in Sukoharjo, Central Java.
'The number of suspects will no longer increase and one of them was not involved in the assault, but witnessed the incident,' Denpom commander Let. Col. Witoyo was quoted by Antara news agency as saying on Thursday.
According to Witoyo, one of the 16 suspects was not a member of the Kopassus Group 2 in Kandang Menjangan headquarters, but was from Group 1 in Serang, Banten.
'The 16 suspects are currently held at the Denpom headquarters in Surakarta,' he said.
He added the dossiers of the suspects were almost completed and would be immediately submitted to the military prosecutors for hearing at a military tribunal.
The suspects have been charged in accordance with their involvement during the assault against Air Force member Sergeant Maj. Zulkifli at the Bima karaoke parlor in Sukoharjo on May 31, in which he was killed.
