Farouk Arnaz – Police in Papua have arrested 14 people following Sunday's attack on a police district headquarters in Pegunungan Bintang, a police official said on Wednesday.

"Six people have been named as suspects and the other eight people are witnesses," Papua Police spokesman I Gde Sumerta Jaya told the Jakarta Globe. "The six suspects are held in the temporary cells in Barak Bujang, which is now the temporary headquarters of the district police after the station was burned down."

The six suspects are the alleged ringleader Yakop Alia, as well as Agus Yamsen, Yesayas Taplo, Emanuel Kalakmabin, Wilem Awolmabin and Katakala Alex Bamulki.

The six are charged under Criminal Code Article 170 for mob violence and Article 187 for arson. Yakop was also charged under Criminal Code Article 160 for provoking a civil disturbance.

As reported on Sunday and Monday, a mob armed with machetes and arrows rounded on a police district headquarters in Pegunungan Bintang on Sunday, setting the building and several vehicles ablaze after claims police beat an intoxicated man crystallized anti-police sentiment into violent dissent.

The catalyst for the incident was understood to be four police officers arriving at Dabolding village at 8 a.m. to deal with three allegedly intoxicated men. What followed was not clear, but police say one man tried to take a police officer's rifle and the officer responded by beating him before the man fled.

Rumors soon spread of the incident and the momentum led to the attack on the police station. Three vehicles and 25 motorcycles were destroyed by fire, with nine police officers, one army officer and two civilians said to be injured.