13 Jan 2017

Indonesia sends more mobile police to Papua

3:37 pm on 13 January 2017

Indonesian police have sent another unit of their mobile brigade to Papua to maintain security in the country's easternmost province.

Indonesian police at a demonstration in the Papuan region

Indonesian police at a demonstration in the Papuan region Photo: Supplied / Whens Tebay

The head of the West Kalimantan Police said he saw off 101 members of the Mobile Brigade Corps to Papua where they would be on duty under the regional police.

Earlier this month, another unit of 120 members of the police mobile brigade corps arrived in Papua from West Java.

The members of the special police force from the West Java police were to be stationed at the posts of Sinak, Ilu and Ilaga in mountainous district of Puncak Jaya.

Papua has remained a hot spot, with separatists hiding in the mountain jungles launching sporadic attacks on the government police or military posts.

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