Sunday, July 12, 2009

POLISI AUSTRALIA IKUT SELIDIKI PENEMBAKAN DI PAPUA

Polri telah meminta keterlibatan Polisi Federal Australia (AFP) dalam upaya penyelidikan terhadap kasus penembakan yang menewaskan Drew Nicholas Grant (38), karyawan PT.Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) asal Australia di Mile 53, Timika, Papua, Sabtu (11/7).

Penjelasan itu disampaikan Menteri Luar Negeri Australia, Stephen Smith, dalam penjelasan persnya yang diperoleh ANTARA di Brisbane, Minggu, menanggapi kasus penembakan tersebut.

Menlu Smith mengatakan, dua personil AFP dari Jakarta sudah tiba di Provinsi Papua guna membantu Polri mengungkap kasus penembakan ini.

"Pihak Polri telah menyampaikan kepada pejabat terkait Australia bahwa Polri memberikan prioritas tinggi terhadap kasus ini," katanya.

Pemerintah Australia menyambut baik permintaan Polri agar AFP membantu penyelidikan kasus ini. "Kami sangat berharap pelaku dapat diseret ke pengadilan secepatnya," katanya.

Terhadap kematian Drew Grant, atas nama pemerintah, Menlu Smith menyampaikan bela sungkawa yang mendalam atas peristiwa tragis yang menimpa warganya itu.

Insiden penembakan Drew Grant di Mile 53 itu terjadi ketika mobil naas jenis LWB bernomor lambung 01-2587 yang dikemudikan Jon Biggs melaju menuju Timika dari Tembagapura.

Dalam insiden tersebut, Drew Grant tertembak pada bagian dada dan leher.

Pada 2002, insiden penembakan terhadap warga negara asing juga terjadi di Timika. Ketika itu kelompok separatis Papua terlibat dalam penembakan dua orang guru warga Amerika Serikat. Kelompok separatis Papua yang terlibat adalah grup pimpinan Antonius Wamang.

*) My news for ANTARA on July 12, 2009

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Hi, I am a journalist of ANTARA, Indonesia's national news agency whose headquarters is in Jakarta. My fate has brought me back to Australia since March 2007 because my office assigns me to be the ANTARA correspondent there. My first visit to the neighboring country was in 2004 when I did my masters at the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) scheme. However, the phase of my life was started from a small town in North Sumatra Province, called Pangkalan Brandan. In that coastal town, I was born and grown up. Having completed my senior high school there in 1987, I moved to Medan to pursue my study at the University of North Sumatra (USU) and obtained my Sarjana (BA) degree in English literature in 1992. My Master of Journalism (MJ) was completed at UQ in July 2005. The final research project report for my MJ degree was entitled "Framing the Australian Embassy Bombing (Jakarta) in Indonesian and Australian Newspapers". Further details about me can be read in a writing posted in my blog entitled "My Life Journey".

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