JAKARTA: Indonesia will yesterday send a team to Sudan to investigate allegations that its peacekeepers stationed there with the United Nations tried to smuggle arms out of the country, officials said.
Authorities in Sudan last week stopped 139 Indonesian police officers from flying out of the Darfur region after security scans found guns and ammunition in luggage believed to belong to them.
Indonesian police have denied their officers were trying to smuggle arms.
“What’s clear is the bags that contained the weapons did not belong to the Indonesian unit,” police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said in a text message.
“An investigation is ongoing involving the UN, Sudan authorities and Indonesian police,” he said.
