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Indonesian authorities had accused armed groups affiliated with the separatist National Committee for West Papua of being behind the 2019 riot. [6] A more immediate cause was the rise of child kidnapping rumors in social media all over Indonesia in early 2023, with a woman accused of child kidnapping being burned alive by a mob in Sorong .
The 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest occurred on 10 January 2024 in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby, later spreading to Lae and other cities. The unrest began following protests by security officers due to a sudden reduction in their salaries and prime minister James Marape 's tax deduction announcement which was later retracted.
The 2023 Oksibil attacks were conducted by the separatist West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) periodically on Oksibil, the seat of Bintang Mountains Regency, Highland Papua from 7 January to 12 January 2023. According to the Regional Police of Papua, the Bintang Mountains is one of 7 regencies that are vulnerable to separatist attacks.
The Nduga hostage crisis began on 7 February 2023 when Free Papua Movement (Indonesian: Organisasi Papua Merdeka, OPM) insurgents attacked a plane and took its pilot and all five passengers hostage. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] While the passengers were soon released, New Zealander pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens remained in captivity until 21 September 2024.
The Papua conflict (Indonesian: Konflik Papua) is an ongoing conflict in Western New Guinea (Papua) between Indonesia and the Free Papua Movement ... Richard Di Natale
The 2019 Papua protests were a series of protests by Papuans in Indonesia that began on 19 August 2019 and mainly took place across Indonesian Papua region in response to the arrests of 43 Papuan students in Surabaya, East Java for alleged disrespect of the Indonesian flag.
On 8 September 2021, members of the TPNPB burnt machinery used for the construction of the Trans-Papua Highway. [ 2 ] 5 days later, riots broke out in Kiwirok when members of the TPNPB attacked public buildings, including a school and a medical centre, [ 3 ] injuring nine people, one of whom later died. [ 4 ]
The rumours started in early January 2023 in various locations such as Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and Papua. [7] [1] Most of these rumours appeared to be used against perceived outsider or migrant communities around them, while some blamed the mentally-ill. [1]