Suspected rebels in
They said an armed group of eight men, believed to be members of the separatist
"The shooting came from the jungle (behind the Freeport office)," the regency's police chief Era Adhinata told reporters, adding that the suspected rebels also injured two Indonesian employees of the same local affiliate.
Over the past year, attacks by separatist rebels against Indonesian security forces have increased after a long period of relative calm in the province.
The western half of
Since then, it has had a long-running separatist movement led by the
The eastern half of the world's second-largest island forms the mainland of the independent nation of
==Kyodo
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