The Impact of Changing the Status of Papua’s Armed Criminal Group (KKB) Into The Terrorist Separatist Group (KST) on Handling
- September 13, 2021
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International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186
Rachmanu Krisnata
Universitas Pertahanan Republik Indonesia
Abstract: The Armed Criminal Group has been designated as a Papuan Terrorist Separatist Group by the Indonesian government. The group, which aims to separate from the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, has carried out many acts of violence and murder against both civilians and security forces. The change in status has had an impact and consequence in its handling. In this paper the method used is a literature and literature study. The handling of insurgency and terrorism in Indonesia has historically undergone a change from the use of its strategy from military force to law enforcement. After the change in the status of the Armed Criminal Group to the Separatist Terrorism Group, the government must immediately prepare national readiness to carry out counter-terrorism with various policies and measures that are effective and efficient.
Keywords: Terorime, Status Change, Handling.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Indonesian government through the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) ensures that the government has categorized the Papuan Armed Criminal Groups (KKB), including those that support the KKB, as the Separatist Terrorist Group (KST). The status change was previously carried out by the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) after the Head of the Papua Regional Intelligence Agency, Brigadier General TNI I Gusti Putu Danny Karya Nugraha, was shot by KKB and died during a gunfight with KKB in the Kampung Dambet, Beoga District, Papua, on Sunday, April 25, 2021.
According to Mahfud MD (2021), that the Government considers organizations and people in Papua who commit massive violence to be designated as terrorists. The determination of this status is in line with the statements of a number of figures and organizations, such as the TNI, BIN, Polri and MPR. Several cases of violence and brutality perpetrated by the KKB in Papua often occur and not a few civilians are victims of the KKB violence.
The problems in Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) began with differences of opinion between Indonesia and the Netherlands during the Round Table Conference (KMB) at the end of 1949. In that KMB, Indonesia and the Netherlands did not succeed in reaching an agreement on Indonesia’s sovereign territory. The delegation from Indonesia (Chairman Moh. Hatta) did not want to back down from the attitude that had been held before the proclamation, that the territory of
