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Group sets Papua police office on fire, raise Morning Star flag

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Jakarta Globe - December 21, 2011

Farouk Arnaz – An unidentified group of people set the Angkaisera police office in Yapen Waropen district Papua on fire and raised the Morning Star flag on Tuesday morning.

"The incident happened on Tuesday at 3 a.m. local time," National police spokesman Saud Usman Nasution said on Wednesday. "At 2 a.m. there was an electricity black out there and officers on duty left the office. Then it happened."

An unidentified group of people raised the Morning Star flag on the police flagpole. No one reported the incident and police are still trying to determine whether there are any missing weapons. The two police officers on duty were Brig. Suriyanto and Brig. Melkianus Yowe.

This is not the first attack on the Angkaisera police station. In July 2009, unidentified people set two police motorcycles on fire.

In a separate incident on Tuesday, people set the house of newly elected West Papua governor, Abraham Ataruri, on fire in Manokwari. Thirteen people have been arrested in relation to the incident.

"The mob was not satisfied with the Constitutional Court ruling that Abraham won," Saud said. The mob consisted of 200 people claiming to be supporters of the other candidate Dominggus Mandacan. Fifteen motorcycles and nine cars were set on fire.

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