Indonesia’s police said that a suspected West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) member had been killed in a shoot-out with a joint force of Indonesian military and police in Central Papua province on March 22.
The joint force carried out aerial surveillance after a motorcycle taxi driver was shot dead by a passenger believed to be a TPNPB soldier in Puncak’s Ilaga, Papua police spokesperson senior commander Ignatius Benny Ady Prabowo said on March 23.
Prabowo said a firefight broke out when the joint force spotted a group of people carrying firearms, whom they suspected to be TPNPB members, traveling from Mundidok Village in Central Papua province….