TNI Police: Terrorist Group Santoso is Confined by Operations Tinombala 2016
By: Agus)*
Security forces in Operation Tinombala 2016 assess the terrorist group in Poso, Central Sulawesi has been in a state pinched and starved, after constantly hounded by about 2,000 military personnel and police were deployed in the operation Tinombala.
Head of Regional Operations Tinombala 2016, Lubis Leo Bona who is also the Deputy Head of the Central Sulawesi Police in a statement said Santoso group’s efforts to find a supply logistics into Sangginora village on February 9, indicates that the group had more difficulty getting food material.
The effort also indicated that the group was also present in the shape of hunger in the forest that has been the place of movement and at the same time the group’s hideout.
On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 Santoso group that has starved it seeks to go down to the location that allows and then rob a car type pick-up between the village and the village Sangginora Hai in Poso Pesisir Selatan.
Pick-up driver spoils the two members of the network group Santoso Sangginora then both of them go down into the village to buy groceries, among whom were five bags of rice, a sack of flour, three dozen eggs, snacks and two cans of cooking oil.
However, the presence of two members of the network Santoso was wafted by military and police in the village Dewua, who went to the location, but led to the clash that killed a member of the Central Sulawesi Police Mobile Brigade and two suspects of the group members Santoso.
The efforts of the security forces continue to patrol and set up security checkpoints in the villages bordering the mountain forests in the region of Poso Pesisir, Poso Pesisir Utara, Poso Pesisir Selatan and Lore East and Sausu in Parigi Moutong district.
TNI-Polri believed that without support, especially in the form of foodstuffs, Santoso group will eventually succumb to the security forces. TNI-Police expect the residents in the surrounding mountain forests do not provide material supply logistics to the group.
)* The Author is Brunei Contributor
