A chilling security crisis has unfolded in Indonesia’s volatile eastern Papua region. Militants from the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) ambushed a small civilian aircraft operated by PT AMA after it touched down on a remote mountain airstrip in Yahukimo. The group shot and killed the American pilot, identified as Nicholas F. Gosselin, before setting the plane on fire. While all seven passengers miraculously survived, TPNPB Commander Elkius Kobak issued a fierce ultimatum, warning the military to stay back and demanding high-ranking government officials retrieve the body themselves without police escorts.

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