FBI team to arrive soon

JAKARTA: The National Police is awaiting the arrival of a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team to join the local police in investigating the ambush on Freeport employees in Timika, Papua, last year.

National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday that preparations were underway to receive the foreign investigators.

Da'i pledged close cooperation with the FBI agents, the second foreign team to be involved in a probe into a crime in Indonesia after the Australian Federal Police were brought in to help with the Bali bombings investigation.

The attack on the employees of U.S. company Freeport Indonesia took place on Aug. 13 last year, and left two Americans and an Indonesian national dead.

Jakarta has established a joint investigating team comprising the police and the military to resolve the conflicting accounts regarding the case.--JP