1996 Timika shooting

According to military spokesmen, Sanurip was reprimanded by another officer for being noisy when he awoke in a hangar that was used by the military as a commando post since the riots in Timika had erupted. As a reaction to this Sanurip began firing with his assault rifle at about 7 a.m. He first shot five other military personnel, including Lieutenant Colonel Adel Gustinigo, commander of Detachment 81, the counter-terrorist arm of the Indonesian army's elite special forces, as well as a major and captain, and then shot indiscriminately at anyone, while running out of the hangar.[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/16/0094.html Musibah di Timika] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306154247/https://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/16/0094.html |date=6 March 2016 }}, Kompas (16 April 1996)[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0009.html ABRI Officer Kills 15 in Timika] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306133816/https://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0009.html |date=6 March 2016 }}, Kompas (17 April 1996)

Within seconds he killed 16 people – five Kopassus officers, six ABRI soldiers and five civilians, one of them New Zealander Michael Findlay, a helicopter pilot working for Airfast – and injuring another 13 people, ten ABRI officers and three civilians. Sanurip was ultimately subdued by other soldiers after being shot in the leg.{{cite news | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/04/15/NEWS7595.dtl&hw=benazir&sn=180&sc=320 | title = 14 die in gun battle at New Guinea airport | access-date = 2012-12-24 | publisher = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 1996-04-15}}{{cite news

| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/soldier-kills-14-in-indonesian-airport-1305133.html

| title = Soldier kills 14 in Indonesian airport

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| publisher = The Independent

| date = 1996-04-16}}{{cite web

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| url-status = dead

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| title = 16 people killed in Indonesian shooting

| access-date = 2008-10-27

| publisher = Seattle Post-Intelligencer

| date = 1996-04-15}}{{cite web

| url = http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/1996/0416/96041600063.html

| title = 15 killed, 12 injured in gun attack

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| publisher = The Irish Times

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It is believed that he fired 52 shots in total during his attack on the Airport.{{Cite web |title=Letda Sanurip Tembaki Fellow Kopassus For Canceling A Mission In History Today, April 15 1996 |url=https://voi.id/en/memori/44602 |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=VOI - Waktunya Merevolusi Pemberitaan |language=en}}

The motive behind the rampage was not immediately known, though it was suggested that Sanurip was suffering from depression and was not in a healthy state, perhaps due to a malaria infection.

It was further reported that an army transporter, carrying two soldiers killed in Mapenduma, made a fuel stop at Timika airport that morning, and that Sanurip began shooting after seeing their remains and realising that one of them was a friend of his, though it was stated by military spokesmen this information was not true and that there was no connection between the arrival of the bodies and the mass murder.{{cite web | url = http://www.converge.org.nz/wpapua/The-archives-1996.html | title = Jarkarta probes killing of 15 in Irian Jaya | access-date = 2012-12-24 | publisher = Papua New Guinea Post-Courier | date = 1996-04-17}}

Also repudiated were initial reports that there was a heated argument between Sanurip and his superiors prior to the shooting.[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/17/0001.html 14 shot dead as Indonesian officer runs amok], The Australian (16 April 1996)

[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0022.html Jakarta names NZ pilot killed in shooting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717211347/http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0022.html |date=17 July 2011 }}, The Australian (17 April 1996)

Among those who were killed:[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0014.html Six Victims of Timika Shooting Buried in Sorong] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717211341/http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0014.html|date=17 July 2011}}, Indonesia Media Network (17 April 1996)[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0074.html Kopassus Berkabung, Bendera Setengah Tiang Berkibar di Tengah] Republika (18 April 1997)[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0072.html Anggota ABRI Yang Tewas Dimakamkan di Irian Jaya] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704081731/http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0072.html |date=4 July 2015 }}, Kompas (17 April 1996)

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• Lieutenant Colonel Adel Gustimigo, 37, Detachment 81/Kopassus
• Major Gunawan, Detachment 81/Kopassus
• Captain Djatmiko, 328th Airborne Infantry/Kostrad
• Sergeant Major Yaswanto, Kopassus
• First Sergeant Manasye, Komando Rayon Militer

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• Sergeant 2nd class Joko, 752nd Battalion/Kodam VIII/Trikora
• Private Kasiyanto, 752nd Battalion/Kodam VIII/Trikora
• Private Misdiyono, 752nd Battalion/Kodam VIII/Trikora
• Private Mochtar, 752nd Battalion/Kodam VIII/Trikora
• Private Rudy, 752nd Battalion/Kodam VIII/Trikora
• Private Triyono, 752nd Battalion/Kodam VIII/Trikora

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• Antonio Budi Afianto, Airfast technician
• Darmanto
• Michael Findlay, Airfast pilot
• Jimmy Watusile
• Unnamed civilian

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Among those wounded was Airfast employee Sarjito.[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1996/04/18/0050.html Penembak di Timika, Kemungkinan Pelaku Sudah Dibawa Ke Jakarta] Republika (18 April 1996)

Two Kopassus and one Kostrad treated in Gatot Subroto

Civilian in Pondok Indah

Four in Jakarta.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

Sanurip was sentenced to death by a military tribunal in Jayapura on 23 April 1997.{{cite web | url = http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/library/Index/ESLASA210261997?open&of=ESL-IDN | title = Pena de muerte | access-date = 2012-12-24 | publisher = Amnesty International | date = 1997-04-25 }}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} After the decision was made public, Amnesty International uttered concerns, because the court had rejected evidence regarding Sanurip's mental health.[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1997/04/26/0036.html Death penalty], Amnesty International (25 April 1997)

The Military High Court in Surabaya dismissed his appeal on 18 June 1997, and also discharged him from the Indonesian Armed Forces and ordered him to pay a nominal court fee, whereupon he lodged an appeal to the Indonesian Supreme Court.[http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1997/09/19/0017.html Death Penalty Appeal in Timika Case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717211328/http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/1997/09/19/0017.html |date=17 July 2011 }}, Amnesty International (18 September 1997)

He later died in a hospital.{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdETAQAAMAAJ | title=Awaiting Death | magazine=Tempo | date= 8 December 2003 | page=33}}

A military tribunal has sentenced to death a soldier who went on a shooting rampage in which he killed 16 people in Irian Jaya last year.

A military tribunal rejected the defence that Second Lieutenant Sanurip was suffering from malaria-induced depression

The shooting is currently the deadliest workplace shooting in modern history.

• Papua conflict
• Fort Lauderdale airport shooting

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{{none|1=Conboy, Ken: [https://books.google.com/books?id=b3vfAAAAMAAJ Elite - The Special Forces of Indonesia 1950-2008]; Equinox Pub., 2008. (p. 44) {{ISBN|9789793780603}}

Lieutenant Sanurip from Group Is Battalion 12, who had been deployed on the Irian operation since January, went berserk at the Timika airfield. Firing 52 bullets from his assault rifle, he killed ten fellow soldiers (including the commander and deputy commander of Detachment 81) and six civilians, including a New Zealand pilot flying for Airfast. There was considerable speculation over the reason for the outburst, but it was widely suspected that the lieutenant had had a simmering dispute with his task force commander.

[https://books.google.com/books?id=fQhXAAAAMAAJ Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific], Iss. 2895-2906

... Officer sentenced to death for 1996 shooting incident in Jayapura

Excerpt from report by Indonesian newspaper 'Kompas' (Internet version)

The Jayapura Military Court in Irian Jaya on Tuesday (22 April) handed down a death sentence for Infantry Second Lt Sanurip, age 37, an officer of Group 1 of the 12th Battalion of the Special Forces Command. Sanurip was found guilty of shooting fellow ABRI [Armed Forces of the Republic of Indonesia] personnel and civilians at a Freeport McMoRan Company hangar in Timika, on 15 April 1996. Sanurip immediately decided to appeal the verdict. Presiding Judge Col Amiruddin Rokhim, who was accompanied by members Lt-Col Subiranto and Infantry Maj Akhiruddin, read the verdict for about 85 minutes. In addition, Sanurip was sacked from ABRI and all service medals and national medals that had been awarded to him were revoked... Source: 'Kompas' Jakarta, in Indonesian 23 Apr 97 [8]

[https://books.google.com/books?id=PnLfAAAAMAAJ Soeyono: bukan puntung rokok]; Ridma Foundation, 2003. (p. 133)

Ada serentetan peristiwa merugikan yang terjadi dalam upaya pembebasan sandera tersebut, misalnya kasus penembakan di hanggar lapangan udara Irian Jaya oleh Sanurip. Sanurip adalah seorang penembak jitu (sniper) dan pelatih tembak tempur yang diterjunkan di daerah operasi untuk membantu pembebasan sandera. Karena stres dan kecewa tidak diikutkan dalam beberapa gerakan operasi, pada suatu subuh dia nekat menembaki siapa saja yang dilihatnya di kawasan landasan lapangan terbang Timika. Sekitar 15 orang menjadi korban penembakan jitu pelatih tembak tempur itu. Yang menjadi korban antara lain Komandan Satgas, yakni seorang perwira menengah Kopassus yang sedang naik daun. Sanurip sendiri bisa ditangkap dan selanjutnya dibawa ke Jakarta untuk diperiksa. Dalam kenyataannya, pemeriksaan dari Komandan Pusat Polisi Militer (Puspom) ABRI Mayjen Syamsu Djalal dan timnya mendapat hambatan karena mereka dilarang masuk ke dalam Ksatrian Kopassus untuk menemui Sanurip. Prabowo kemudian mengambil kesimpulan sendiri bahwa Sanurip merupakan personel yang keadaan mental ideologinya harus dicurigai karena latar belakang keluarganya yang tidak bersih lingkungan. "Kelanjutan penyidikan kasus ini tidak bisa saya ikuti perkembangannya karena saya dinonaktifkan dari dinas .Yang saya dengar berikutnya adalah Sanurip mengalami nasib yang mengenaskan karena bunuh diri di selnya," tutur Soeyono.

Terlepas dari kasus Sanurip tersebut, operasi pembebasan sandera terus dilanjutkan dalam keadaan berpacu dengan waktu. Suatu hari, saat Pangab melakukan perjalanan ke Jawa Timur, Soeyono, yang sedang standby di Mabes ABRI, menerima telepon dari Mayjen Syamsir Siregar yang menginformasikan pasukan telah mengendus posisi para penyandera beserta orang-orang yang disanderanya. Posisi tersebut diketahui karena aparat mengerahkan alat-alat monitor canggih. Dari rekaman data yang dikirim alat tersebut,

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