OPM: from Guns to Butter

THE Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border is a hotspot for battles between the TNI and the forces of the OPM. What has happened in these havoc-ridden border villages after the OPM elected to take the political route?

August 16, 2005

THE car slowed. Sergeant Krisdiyanto, who sits behind the steering wheel, reduced his speed to 40 kilometers per hour. The Bima Sakti post in Skow, a border point with Papua New Guinea, was only 200 meters ahead. On that day, January 1, 2003, Krisdiyanto was assigned to escort Lt. Col. Daru, Commander of the Intelligence Command of the Papua Military Region (Kodam), to this post. However, as soon as he began to slow down, gunfire suddenly erupted

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