Indonesia Jails Soldiers over Killing of Papuan

Jayapura. Three Indonesian soldiers tried over the killing of a Papuan priest were sentenced to up to 15 months in jail for insubordination, a military official said on Friday.

“The sentences were appropriate,” provincial military spokesman Lt. Col. Ali Hamdan Bogra said.

“The men were investigated through a process that was in accordance with military criminal law.”

Indonesia is often criticized by human rights groups for failing to punish military personnel responsible for killings and abuses of civilians in the eastern Papua region.

The court martial heard that the soldiers assaulted Kinderman Gire when he stopped a military supply convoy to ask for gasoline in Puncak Jaya district on March 17 last year.
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