Indonesian police have arrested 11 people in Papua for raising the Morning Star flag.

Police broke up a rally in the west of the province when demonstrators held the banned flag aloft and called for a referendum on Papua's future.

The demonstrators could be charged with promoting separatism. Police have rejected claims that they beat several of the demonstrators.

The Morning Star flag is a symbol of the Papuan independence movement and was the official flag of West Papua when it was under UN control in the 1960's.