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JAKARTA - Protests in Indonesia's Papua province threaten the resource-rich region's peace process, which will collapse without the support of the Indonesian government, the International Crisis Group said. The government sent additional forces to Papua's capital, Jayapura, after the deaths of five security officers last week during protests to demand the closure of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s Grasberg mine, the world's largest for gold and second-biggest for copper.
``The anti-Freeport violence was a way of venting frustration over long-running grievances ranging from a lack of justice for past abuses to poverty and corruption to the role of the military in the province,'' Francesca Lawe-Davies, an analyst with the Brussels-based group, said in a report. Papua is the former Irian Jaya province where the Free Papua Movement fought for a separate state after the former Dutch colonial power ceded control to Indonesia in 1963.
Its name was changed under a regional autonomy law aimed at reducing the government's hold on outlying provinces and to quell unrest. Indonesia last October set up the Papuan People's Council as the administrative body in the province that is rich in oil, gas, gold and copper. The council, known locally as the Majelis Rakyat Papua or MRP, is in danger of collapsing, the Crisis Group said. Failure to bolster the council ``could deal a fatal blow'' to the autonomy package granted to Papua, it said. Indonesia's easternmost province lies on the western half of New Guinea island it shares with Papua New Guinea.
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