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Indonesia Deploys Extra Troops to Restive Papua
October 25, 2011

The body of Mulia subdistrict police chief Adj. Comr. Dominggus Awes, who was shot dead in the central highland district of Puncak Jaya, is loaded onto a plane to be flown to Jayapura on Tuesday. (AFP Photo) The body of Mulia subdistrict police chief Adj. Comr. Dominggus Awes, who was shot dead in the central highland district of Puncak Jaya, is loaded onto a plane to be flown to Jayapura on Tuesday. (AFP Photo)
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maspanji
2:53am Oct 26, 2011

Morethan 50 years after Soekarno got Western Papua under Indonesian sovereignty , the current leadership still don't understand how to cultivate nationhood and foster better relationship with the indigenious Papua into the fold of Bangsa Indonesia but subjecting them to brutal military and police campaigns, remember the despicable brutality displayed on youtube when Brimob trooper bayoneting a Papuan and let him died in agony while taking it on videophone and post it in youtube, the brutality got to stop or we will see Papua break away from the republic.

blightyboy
6:21pm Oct 25, 2011

Let the butchery begin - again!

devine
6:18pm Oct 25, 2011

Hope we get the same laws for corruptors one day. Their crimes could be considered as treason too since it disenfranchises the whole population.

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Indonesia has sent paramilitary reinforcements to restive Papua province, police said on Tuesday, after a deadly crackdown on a pro-independence rally and the shooting of a police chief.

Six Papuans were killed last Wednesday after security forces stormed a rally where participants raised the outlawed separatist flag, and a local police chief was killed on Monday by two attackers who grabbed his gun and shot him at an airport.

“So far 260 [extra] personnel from the police mobile brigade [Brimob] have landed in Papua province to help maintain security in two districts,” provincial police spokesman Wachyono said.

Troops were sent to the Puncak Jaya and Paniai highlands in central Papua, he said, adding that they will join an existing force of 14,000 police and paramilitary troops in Papua.

Wachyono said they were still “hunting” the police chief’s killers. Authorities have said that based on preliminary investigations they are believed to be separatists.

In other incidents, gunshots were fired at police on Tuesday in the highlands, a known hub for Papuan separatists, National Police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam said.

“They fired shortly after the police chief’s body was flown to [the provincial capital] Jayapura. There are no casualties so far,” he said.

The troop deployment also follows a long strike by miners in Papua.

Eight people have been killed this month in car ambushes and police clashes near US mining giant Freeport McMoRan’s Grasberg gold and copper mine north of Timika town.

For decades, natives of the Papua region have rejected their special autonomy status within Indonesia, demanding a referendum on self-determination for the 3.6 million population.

Indonesia has strict treason laws and courts have handed down stiff penalties — from 20 years in jail to life — for people caught with separatist symbols such as the Papuan flag.

Agence France-Presse