Indonesia Security Forces Claim Suspected Papuan Rebel Killed in Shoot-Out

Indonesian riot police take positions as fresh unrest broke out in Indonesia's restive Papua region in provincial capital Jayapura on Sept. 23, 2019. Faisal Narwawan/AFP via Getty Images

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.