A SERIES of shots was heard in the distance in the middle of the night last Wednesday. Two security guards at the PT Freeport Indonesia gold mine reported the shots to the Kuala Kencana Police District, Timika, Papua. “I heard them too,” said a local from the area of the shooting. The police investigated, but did not find any signs.

A day later, three mortar bombs exploded. The first exploded before midnight, under the Kali Kabur bridge over