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    "data": {
        "id": 1849378,
        "msgid": "cartenz-peace-task-force-arrests-5-suspects-supplying-firearms-to-yalimo-armed-criminal-group-1783576378",
        "date": "2026-07-09 11:43:43",
        "title": "Cartenz Peace Task Force Arrests 5 Suspects Supplying Firearms to Yalimo Armed Criminal Group",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Legal",
        "summary": "The Cartenz Peace Operation Task Force has apprehended five individuals suspected of involvement in an illegal firearms supply network for an armed criminal group (KKB) operating in the Yalimo-Yahukimo region. One of the suspects, identified as AG, was already on the police wanted list for acting as an intermediary in the network. The arrests are part of a broader investigation that previously uncovered hundreds of rounds of ammunition and several firearms.",
        "content": "<p>The Cartenz Peace Operation Task Force has arrested five suspected\nmembers of a firearms trafficking network supplying an armed criminal\ngroup (KKB) in the Yalimo-Yahukimo area. The five individuals,\nidentified by the initials AG, FCRG, JT, IK, and MK, were apprehended on\nTuesday (7\/7\/2026) at various locations in Jayapura City. Head of the\nODC Task Force Public Relations, Senior Commissioner Yusuf Sutejo,\nstated on Thursday that one of those arrested, AG, was already on the\nwanted list (DPO) for his role as an intermediary in the illegal\nfirearms distribution network in Yalimo-Yahukimo. AG was placed on the\nwanted list based on Police Report Number LP\/A\/1\/III\/2026\/SPKT\nDitkrimum\/Polda Papua dated 13 March. The arrest of the firearms and\nammunition supply network for the KKB was the result of an investigation\nby ODC Task Force personnel, following the earlier arrest of SP and DK\non 12 March, who are suspected of being affiliated with the KKB Kodap\nYaligem in Yalimo. \u2018Investigators are also still looking into AG\u2019s\ninvolvement in a transaction to purchase one long-barrelled homemade\nfirearm worth approximately Rp 80 million on 4 March,\u2019 said Senior\nCommissioner Yusuf. He noted that AG\u2019s arrest is part of a series of\ninvestigations that previously led to the seizure of 298 rounds of\nammunition, four SS1 magazines, one homemade firearm, and six World War\nII-era rifle barrels found in a rusty condition without stocks last\nMarch. \u2018The five suspects are charged under Article 306 in conjunction\nwith Article 20 of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code,\nwhich carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years,\u2019 said Senior\nCommissioner Yusuf Sutejo, Head of Public Relations for the ODC Task\nForce.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/cartenz-peace-task-force-arrests-5-suspects-supplying-firearms-to-yalimo-armed-criminal-group-1783576378",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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