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Why a US Pilot Was Killed in Indonesia

The shooting of a 29-year-old American pilot at a remote airstrip in Indonesia's far east has highlighted one of Asia's longest running insurgencies.

The shooting of a 29-year-old American pilot at a remote airstrip in Indonesia's far east has highlighted one of Asia's longest running insurgencies. The killing this month at the hands of an armed pro-independence Papuan group came two years after a similar murder of a New Zealand pilot. A second New Zealand pilot was held for 19 months by armed rebels before being released. Asia Specific host Mariko Oi speaks to Abraham Utama from Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Indonesian and Johnny Blades from Radio New Zealand on why the decades-long armed quest for independence persists, and why Indonesia's government hasn't found a peaceful way to approach it.

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