JAKARTA — An eruption of violence in Indonesia’s eastern Papua region, which has seen more than 40 people killed this year, has prompted calls for the government to pay greater attention to the area that has been home to an armed separatist movement for decades.
The Papua Justice and Human Integrity Foundation, an independent group, recorded at least 20 violent incidents between Janu and April in the remote and underdeveloped but resource-rich western half of the island of New Guinea.
