Police to send officers to RP

Police to send officers to RP

JAKARTA: The police are planning to send two officers to the
Philippines soon to seek information on a report that four
Indonesian boat crewmen have been abducted by armed group
believed to be members of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group.

"We will dispatch two police officers to the Philippines,"
Police Chief General Da'i Bachtiar said Sunday.

He did not give the name and rank of the officers and did not
say when they will depart.

But Da'i said that the officers will be sent not to intervene
in the investigation by the Philippine Police but just to seek
more complete information on the abductions.

"We cannot intervene in the investigation, but in our officers
can seek more complete information in the Philippines," Da'i was
quoted by Antara as saying.

The police, according to Da'i, have already contacted the
Philippine police regarding the abductions.

Four Indonesians were on July 17 kidnapped by armed men
believed to be from an Abu Sayyaf faction in the southern island
of Jolo. One was reported to have escaped and has been rescued by
the military in the Philippines. -- Antara