Trikora commander withdraws suit

Trikora commander withdraws suit

JAYAPURA, Papua: Trikora Military Commander Maj. Gen. Nurdin Zainal who overseas Papua withdrew a defamation suit on Wednesday against EL-SHAM Papua for accusing the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) of involvement in the attack on a PT Freeport employee bus in Tembagapura last August.

Two foreigners and an Indonesian were killed in the incident.

The trial was scheduled for Wednesday at the Jayapura District Court but a day earlier the commander's lawyer Maj. CHK Priyono met the Jayapura Prosecutors Office civil court administrator to withdraw the suit.

The Indonesian Military (TNI) filed the suit after EL-SHAM Papua claimed that some Kopassus members were involved in the attack last August.

Nurdin said that the information had defamed the TNI because it was baseless. -- JP