The Jakarta Post | Fri, 12/03/2010 10:40 AM
MEDAN, North Sumatra: Police in North Sumatra on Thursday named
four forest rangers as suspects in a shooting incident triggered by a
land dispute.
Eight farmers received gunshot wounds in the
incident, which took place at Meranti village, Torgamba district,
Labuhan Batu regency, on Nov. 30.
The suspects were identified
only by the initials AS, age 36, a Forestry Ministry employee, and PMS,
34, NIHH, 43, and SB, 41, employees of the North Sumatra Natural
Resources Conservation Center.
Labuhan Batu Police chief Adj. Sr.
Comr. Robert Kennedy said the suspects were believed to be the
shooters. He added that the police had seized four Molot rifles from
them.
“They are being charged with violating Article 170 of the
Criminal Code for committing violence against others and could face a
five-year prison sentence if found guilty,” Kennedy told The Jakarta
Post on Thursday.
The incident was an eruption of a four-year
dispute over a plot of land between locals and timber company PT Sinar
Belantara Indah.
Kennedy said the police would also investigate
the vandalism in which a number of cars owned by PT Sinar Belantara
Indah timber company and forest rangers had been set on fire. — JP
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