Reuters exclusively reports Indonesia’s troop surge in Papua aims to ‘wipe out’ armed rebels

Reuters exclusively reported that a new security crackdown on armed separatists in the central highlands of Indonesia’s restive Papua region will be maintained until they are wiped out. Amid a worsening conflict, some 400 extra troops have been deployed to Papua following the assassination of a senior intelligence official. “The objective is to wipe out those behind these horrible acts of violence,” Paulus Waterpauw, an indigenous Papuan and head of Indonesian police intelligence told Reuters.