Police regain control in Indonesia's Papua region after riots
Indonesia's Police Chief said on Monday that authorities in the easternmost Papua region were regaining control after protesters set fire to tires and torched a local parliament building over the recent detention of scores of Papuan students. A separatist movement has simmered for decades in Papua amidst frequent complaints of rights abuses by Indonesian security forces. The spark for the latest anger appears to have been the detention of Papuan students in Surabaya, East Java, for allegedly bending a flagpole in front of a dormitory during ...
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