JAKARTA: Protesters in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua set fire to tyres and torched a local parliament building on Monday after a demonstration against the recent detention of scores of Papuan students, according to media reports and an official.
Police fired tear gas into the dormitory before arresting 43, with officers calling the students"monkeys" during the operation, Albert Mungguar, one of the activists said at a news conference on Sunday. "The city centre, market, the port are next to the parliament building, as well as shopping centres. Everything's affected. Practically, the whole city is not running, if not to say completely paralysed," Lakotani told Kompas TV.Television footage showed a group of about 150 people marching on the streets in Manokwari, as well as footage of smoke billowing from a parliament building.