The Jakarta Post, Jayapura | Archipelago | Thu, May 02 2013, 7:59 AM
While people all over the world commemorated May 1 as a day
for workers, residents in Papua celebrated on Wednesday the integration
of Papua province into Indonesia.
In Jayapura, residents
celebrated the integration of Papua into Indonesia by holding a float
parade while introducing national heroes from Papua: Frans Kaisipeo,
Marthen Indey, Silas Papare and Elieser Yan Bonai.
The police,
however, arrested six people in Ibdi village in Biak regency for
commemorating the day as Papua's annexation by Indonesia and raising the
Morning Star flag of the separatist Free Papua Organization (OPM).
"The
six people were arrested because they were flying the banned flag,"
Papua Police chief spokesman Sr. Comr. I Gede Sumerta Jaya said in
Jayapura.
Some 50 other people were provoking the crowd to secede
from Indonesia, he said. Sumerta added that when police were trying to
disperse the crowd, they tried to seize firearms from the officers. The
police were forced to fire warning shots.
In Sorong, West Papua,
one soldier was injured when security officers tried to break up a crowd
commemorating the annexation. The crowd refused to disperse and instead
attacked security personnel using sharp weapons.
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