Wamena

Brigadier General S.Y. Wenas, chief of the Irian Jaya Police, really meant what he said when he threatened to haul down the Morning Star flag, the symbol of a free Papua. Last Friday, National Police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) and Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) troops clashed with locals after the police forcefully removed the Morning Star flying in front of the Wamena cinema in Irian Jaya. But locals and members of the Papuan Def