Indonesian authorities investigate cause of Papua protest

Indonesian military chief and police chief said on Wednesday the authorities were investigating the case in Surabaya that had triggered over a week of unrest in the country's eastern most Papua province.

The latest spate of demonstrations in Papua and across Indonesia was triggered by a racist slur against Papuan students who were hit by tear gas in their dormitory and detained in the city of Surabaya in East Java last week. The rallies grew in several places into a broader demand for an independence referendum. In a separate incident on Wednesday, shooting broke out at a protests in a Papua town of Deiyai, killing one soldier and two protesters, local police said.