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Armed Papuan separatist killed in gunfight
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Chief of public relations task force of Nemangkawi Operations, Senior Commissioner M Iqbal Alqudusy. (ANTARA/HO/Humas Satgas Nemangkawi) Timika, Papua (ANTARA) - A member of Lekagak Telenggen-led separatist terrorist group was shot dead in a gunfight with a joint team of police and military personnel in Maki village, Ilaga sub-district, Puncak district, Papua on Friday.
The joint team
managed to bring the situation under control in Ilaga and surrounding areas following the gunfight, chief of the public relations task force of Nemangkawi Operations, Senior Commissioner M Iqbal Alqudusy, informed in a written statement released on Friday.
The joint military-police counter-insurgency task force shot three members of the armed criminal group which the government has declared as a terrorist group, .
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Indonesian police arrested a pro-independence activist in Papua on suspicion of treason and sedition in connection with anti-Jakarta demonstrations that turned into deadly riots in the region two years ago, authorities said Monday.
The arrest of Victor Yeimo, chairman of the National Committee for West Papua (KNPB), a Papuan civilian organization that seeks a referendum on self-determination for Papua, occurred over the weekend amid escalating tensions in the far-eastern region.
Indonesia’s president has ordered a crackdown on Papuan armed separatist rebels after they assassinated the government’s intelligence chief for the region in late April.
Yeimo was picked up on Sunday in the provincial capital, Jayapura, after being a fugitive for nearly two years, said M. Iqbal Alqudusy, a police spokesman for a counter-insurgency task force known as Operation Nemangkawi.