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Protest Outside Indonesian Embassy in PNG
January 09, 2012

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Papua New Guinea police reportedly dispersed a protest outside the Indonesian Embassy in Port Moresby on Monday.

“The group of [about 50] men were demanding an explanation over an airspace incident involving two Indonesian military aircraft and a jet carrying PNG’s deputy prime minister,” Australia Network News reported.

A pair of the protesters had chained themselves to the gate.

Indonesian politicians on Sunday said the government should retaliate against the recent threat from Papua New Guinea to expel the Indonesian ambassador.

Tensions had risen after two Indonesian military aircraft reportedly nearly collided with a Falcon F900 jet that was carrying PNG’s deputy prime minister, Belden Namah, and other senior government officials who were returning from Malaysia on Nov. 29.

Indonesia maintains that the close call was the result of a technical problem and that the Indonesian planes’ flight path was in line with procedure and that it “never put the [PNG] airplane in danger.”