Indonesia: New Generation Of Papuan Rebels Ups Ante Of Conflict

By Stephen Wright and Pizaro Gozali Idru

The kidnapping of a New Zealand pilot in Indonesia’s volatile Papua region is the latest in a series of attention-grabbing attacks by 24-year-old Egianus Kogoya and his faction of Papuan independence fighters.

Since about 2017 Indonesian authorities have blamed the group he leads...