A platoon of the Indonesian Police Mobile Brigade, or Brimob, has been deployed to Mulia, in Papua province's Puncak Jaya regency, in response to a fatal shooting last week.
The newspaper, Kompas, reports that the Brimob platoon has been sent to pursue the gunmen who reportedly shot at an ambulance last week, killing one person and injuring several others including medical officers.
It is the same area where reports from rights activists and church groups in May claimed that up to forty Papuans had been executed in a mass killing by Indonesian security forces.
The stories were dismissed by Indonesian authorities but a reported increase in the security forces deployment in the area is being linked to casualties.
