Some 40 protesters have picketed Indonesia's parliament, calling on the government to launch an independent investigation into the murder of Papuan pro-independence leader, Theys Eluay.

The demonstrators, some of whom wore the province's traditional dress, demanded the government form an international investigation commission.

Mr Eluay was murdered in November last year. He had been abducted the previous evening by an unidentified group as he drove home from a celebration hosted by the local Kopassus special forces military unit in the provincial capital, Jayapura.

A government-appointed investigation commission has named six special forces soldiers as suspects in the murder, three of them have been detained. The team classified the murder as a crime rather than a human rights violation.