Trikora commander withdraws suit
Thursday, June 12 2003 - 02:09 AM WIB
Trikora Military Commander overseeing Papua province 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 Indonesia employee bus in Tembagapura last August, The Jakarta Post reported.
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. (*)