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“I will brief President [Jokowi] on Komnas HAM’s findings of Yeremia’s death in the Papuan district of Intan Jaya, just as I conveyed the outcome of the Fact-Finding Team’s report on the incident,” Mahfud said in his minisry’s YouTube channel on 4 November.

“I will assign [the Indonesian National Police and other law enforcement institution] to follow up the report in an impartial manner.”

Komnas HAM’s report indicated that a senior officer in the Military District Command Sector for Intan Jaya’s Hitadipa area, where Yeremia was killed, was involved in the incident.

“The officer directly committed the extrajudicial torture and killing [of Yeremia],” said Komnas HAM commissioner Choirul Anam earlier this week on 2 November. “Witnesses saw him and three or four other personnel at the scene of the crime.”

Anam’s findings were based on the gunshot wounds which killed Yeremia. “The shots came from a short-barrelled weapon fired at distances of less than a meter. He was also shot and killed in the narrow confines of a pig sty,” he added.

Anam noted that Yeremia’s death came in the wake of a firefight between Papuan insurgents suspected to be from the Free Papua Movement [OPM] who killed an Indonesian Army sergeant in a firefight on 17 September and stole his weapon.

“We suspected that Yeremia’s killers interrogated him on the whereabouts of the insurgents and the weapons they killed. There is evidence that the suspects targeted him before his death, as one of them called Yeremia as ‘one of [the Army’s] enemies.’”

Yeremia was known to be outspoken about the effects of the insurgency on Papua’s indigenous people, particularly after two of his relatives went missing during the conflict.

Source:

https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2020/11/04/18101191/mahfud-akan-sampaikan-temuan-komnas-ham-soal-pendeta-yeremia-ke-presiden?page=all#page2. 

3. Exiled FPI Head Rizieq Shihab Announces Homecoming to Indonesia

The Islamic Defenders Front [FPI] has announced that its head Rizieq Shihab will return to Indonesia on 9 November, ending his three-year exile in Saudi Arabia.

The news comes after the FPI was spotted joining other Muslim groups in protests before the French Embassy in Jakarta.

“Thank God, the long-awaited day when Grand Imam Habib Rizieq Shihab returns [to Indonesia] and rejoins his [FPI] brethren will soon come,” the FPI said in a press release dated 3 November, as quoted by Kompas TV.

FPI spokesman Munarman confirmed the news. “Rizieq is now free to leave Saudi Arabia, as he no longer has issues there," he said. "His travel documents are also in order, which means he is cleared to return to Indonesia.”