Papuan activists attend a protest in Surabaya on December 1, 2020, to mark the Free Papua Organization anniversary. - AFP
JAKARTA (Reuters): Hundreds of Papuans held rallies across at least eight cities in Indonesia on Tuesday (Dec 1) to renew calls for independence, as a separatist group declared it had established a provisional government in exile.
The demonstrations marked the anniversary of West Papua declaring independence from Dutch rule in 1961, which was followed by a contentious UN-sanctioned referendum in 1969 that brought Papua under Indonesian control.
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