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A sport stadium for PON XX in Papua. (Photo: PUPR Ministry) - 

Papua Province braces for the convening of PON National Games in October this year in the midst of security threats posed by armed Papuan criminals in several districts.

Top brass of Indonesia's National Police highlighted that Papua remains conducive ahead of the province's PON National Games to be convened in October this year.

"The national games will be held as scheduled," National Police spokesperson Brig. Gen. Rusdi Hartono stated in Jakarta on Tuesday (April 20, 2021).

Hartono noted that armed Papuan criminals continue to disrupt law and security in several areas, but the police and army personnel had ably handled their acts of violence.

The security personnel stationed in Papua, including those from the Nemangkawi Task Force, strive to maintain security to ensure that conditions in the province remain conducive, he remarked.

The Indonesian Defence Forces and National Police are readying a security plan to ensure that the Papua PON National Games that will be participated in by selected athletes and officials from all over Indonesia are held as scheduled from Oct 2 to Oct 15, 2021.

The Indonesian police and TNI personnel stationed in Papua will never retreat even a single step in enforcing the law against the notorious armed criminals in their endeavors to make the convening of Papua PON National Games successful//ANT