Robert Isidorus, Papua – The two Indonesian loggers held captive by a Papuan separatist group earlier this month in Papua New Guinea said they were stripped naked and beaten by their captors during their week-long ordeal.

"They forced us to crawl on the ground while yelling, 'Free Papua.' They forbade us to speak in our local Butonese [South Sulawesi] dialect; we had to speak Indonesian instead," Badar, 29, told Papua Police Chief Ins. Gen. Paulus Waterpauw at Bhayangkara Hospital in Jayapura, Papua.

Badar and Ladiri, 28, were among a group of Indonesian loggers working in Skopro village, located in Papua's Keerom district, who were attacked by seven armed men believed to be members of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) some 100 meters from the Papua New Guinea border.While their coworkers managed to flee, the pair was captured and taken across the border, into the dense jungles of Mount Victoria.

Badar and Ladiri said they spotted a helicopter flying overhead on their fourth day of captivity and attempted to catch the pilot's attention by waving their shirts in the air, but to no avail.

Neither knew why they had been captured. They were handed over to the Indonesian government through the Indonesian Consulate in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, last Friday before being transported back to Papua.

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