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Over the past year, rebels in the Indonesian province of West Papua have attacked several Catholic institutions.

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The Catholic Church has traditionally been sympathetic to the aspirations of West Papuans.
But, over the past year, rebels in the Indonesian province of West Papua have attacked several Catholic institutions. 
The worst was early July, when they killed an American pilot, whose plane was carrying aid for Catholic charities. 
What’s behind these attacks by anti-Indonesian rebels? 
GUEST:
Ahmad Syarif is a researcher at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. He spent nearly a decade at the Jakarta office of Bower Group Asia. He recently documented the growing violence in a report for The Lowy Interpreter.

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