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Civil Society Coalition Urges TNI to Cancel Combat Alert Operation in Papua The Civil Society Coalition for Security Sector Reform has urged the TNI to cancel combat alert operations in vulnerable areas in Papua.  The combat alert operation was carried out in the aftermath of the attack by the Armed Criminal Group (KKB) which killed one Indonesian Army soldier and five soldiers are still missing in Nduga, Papua Mountains.  Chairman of the Centra Initiative Al Araf from the coalition representative said the choice of combat alert operation was a policy that would continue to produce a spiral of violence.  "If that is the policy choice to be pursued, then the coalition urges that the plan be cancelled," said Araf in a press release, Tuesday (18/4/2023) evening.  Araf said that the militaristic security approach that has been implemented so far in Papua has had a direct and indirect impact on violence and human rights violations in Papua.  Several cases have emerged