Jayapura – Police have detained two people identified as EK,17, and PK,19, for their alleged involvement in several murders in Jayapura, Papua, on June 7, 2011 and in Nafri on Aug. 1, 2011.

The two were arrested together with 13 others in Kotaraja, Jayapura, on Aug. 31 after the police investigated a series of violent incidents in August.

"Out of the 15 arrested, only two were named suspects. One of them has admitted to having killed a soldier and three other civilians in the incidents," Jayapura police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Imam Setiawan told The Jakarta Post.

Aside from detaining the two suspects, the police also confiscated various weapons, including bows and arrows and a homemade rifle as well as Free Papua Movement documents.

The two suspects will be charged with premeditated murder, a charge bearing a maximum jail sentence of 20 years under Article 338 of the Criminal Code.