JAKARTA, Indonesia—At least 20 people were killed on Sept. 23, including three shot by police, in violent protests sparked by rumors that a teacher insulted an indigenous student in Indonesia’s restive Papua Province, officials said.
An angry mob torched local government buildings, shops, and homes, and set fire to cars and motorbikes on several roads leading to the district chief’s office in Wamena city, Papua police chief Rudolf Alberth Rodja said.
