Police in Papua have arrested 85 suspects since ethnic unrest erupted in Indones...
JAKARTA - Police in Papua have arrested 85 suspects since ethnic unrest erupted in Indonesia’s easternmost region in mid-August, a spokesman said, accusing a separatist leader based in Britain of fomenting Papua’s most serious civil strife in years.
Some protesters have demanded a referendum on independence, something the government has ruled out. Papua and West Papua provinces, the resource-rich western part of the island of New Guinea, were formerly a Dutch colony that was incorporated into Indonesia after a widely criticized U.N.-backed referendum in 1969.
Giving the update on the number of people arrested, Prasetyo did not specify what charges they faced, but he said two of the suspects were “the intellectual actors” who “designed the riots”. He said police were still hunting 20 more suspects. Police spokesman Prasetyo said only three civilians and one military personnel died, most of them as a result of being struck by arrows. In Papua, the traditional bow and arrow is still used for hunting and as a weapon.
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