The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has condemned more racist slurs directed at West Papuans from members of Indonesia's elite.
Two incidents have provoked fresh outrage, with at least one case prompting Indonesian police to make an arrest before public anger spills over.
A former head of Indonesia's intelligence agency and special forces, General Hendropriyono.
Photo: TEMPO/Dhemas Reviyanto
Last month a former head of the Indonesian intelligence agency and special forces, General Hendropriyono, said that West Papuans should be resettled away from their homeland on the island of Manado.
He explained that the idea to move two million West Papuans was so Indonesia "could racially separate them from Papuans in PNG, so that they could feel more like Indonesians instead of foreigners".