easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua.
The activists were involved in an antiracism protest in August last year in the Papuan provincial capital of Jayapura, in a response to two incidents on Java Island in which Papuan university students were allegedly subjected to racial abuse by soldiers.According to the judges, the activists were found guilty of having committed treason aimed at giving "a part of the country to the enemy" or "separating" it from Indonesia.
Earlier, however, five military personnel involved in the incidents on Java island by calling the Papuan students "monkeys" and "dogs" were immediately suspended, but the incidents sparked the Jakarta protests, as well as riots in Papua and West Papua that claimed about 30 lives.
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