Farouk Arnaz – Papua Police have named another two suspects over the burning down of a police station in the east of the restive province, bringing the total to eight suspects, police said.

"There are two more suspects, they are KS, also known as Keli, and MHK," Sr. Cmr. I Gede Sumerta Jaya, a Papua Police spokesman, told the Jakarta Globe on Thursday.

Police said the attack on the station in Pegunungan Bintang Police District had cost Rp 28.692 billion.

Both KS and MHK have been charged under Criminal Code Article 170 for mob violence and Article 187 for arson. KS was also charged under Article 36 on theft, while MHK was also charged with Article 160 for provoking a civil disturbance. "He [allegedly] asked people to attack the police district," Sumerta said.

Police confiscated darts found in the Pegunungan Bintang Police District that were used to shoot the police and a kerosene drum used to burn down the station.

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

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.