Jayapura – The Operations Damai Cartenz Task Force has denied that the joint TNI-Polri team carried out the bombing in the Nduga region, Papua, as stated by Susi Air pilot Captain Philips Max Mehrtens in a video message April 24, 2023.
Head of the Cartenz Damai Operations Public Relations Task Force, Sr. Comr. Donny Charles Go, said the video message was just propaganda made by the Free Papua Organization (OPM) to corner the TNI. “That’s just propaganda to corner the TNI and Polri,” Donny said when contacted, Wednesday, April 26, 2023.
Donny said that the Carstensz Task Force did not carry out the bombing. The actions taken by the TNI-Polri Carstensz Task Force were only gunfire or return fire if they were attacked first. He emphasized that he did not carry out the bombing. “We are not equipped with that,” said Donny.
Donny said the TNI-Polri Damai Carstensz Task Force was continuing to work to find Captain Philips Max Mehrtens. Regarding the combat alert status announced by the TNI Commander Admiral Yudo Margono, Donny said that since the beginning the National Police had dispatched the Operations Damai Carstensz Task Force which covered several districts in Papua, Papua Mountains, and Central Papua.
“This Task Force is also working together with the Safe Nusa Ops Task Force to deal with the KKB (Armed Criminal Group),” said Donny.
