Word: papua
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...anything but urge the T.N.I. to make its soldiers' actions more transparent, a plea the T.N.I. notes and then ignores-as the U.S. allows it to do. If anything does disrupt U.S.-Indonesia relations, it will not be Acehnese blood but that of two American teachers murdered in Papua last August, possibly by the military...
...province's 114 subdistrict chiefs with retired soldiers, which would give the military a stranglehold over the province and allow the uninterrupted plunder of natural resources such as timber. It is a future the generals would wish upon other parts of resource-rich Indonesia-for example, restive Papua province-and one that appears inevitable considering the lack of protest or even debate over their blood-soaked Aceh adventure...
...TIME: Why are you adopting a hard-line strategy in Aceh? RYAMIZARD: No region can be allowed to break away. That includes Aceh and Papua. Even if those making noises (about independence) number up to a million, this is a country of more than 220 million people. Our job is to safeguard unity. Our job is to destroy GAM's military capability. Issues of justice, religion, autonomy, social welfare, education?those are not the Indonesian military's problems...
...GEORGE STROCK/TIMEPIX America's war dead on a Papua New Guinea beach...
...Indonesia also has its own team of police and military investigators on the case, but it's not clear how effectively they are navigating this political quagmire. No arrests have been made and the former deputy chief of police in Papua, Brigadier General Raziman Tarigan, was recalled to Jakarta in mid-January after speaking publicly about the possibility of military involvement in the killings...