Exclusive-Indonesia's troop surge in Papua aims to 'wipe out' armed rebels: police intel chief


Paulus Waterpauw, head of the National Police Intelligence and Security Agency, gestures as he talks during an interview at his office in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 29, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana

JAKARTA (Reuters) -A new security crackdown on armed separatists in the central highlands of Indonesia's restive Papua region will be maintained until they are wiped out, the country's police intelligence chief said.

Amid a worsening conflict, some 400 extra troops have been deployed to Papua following the assassination of a senior intelligence official there and the designation of separatists as "terrorists" by the Indonesian government last month.

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