Around 200 people raised the Morning Star flag in Indonesia's Papua province in December 2001, in a symbolic move to mark the Papuan independence campaign that has been pursued since 1962.
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Filep Karma was arrested at that ceremony and jailed 15 years for flying the outlawed Papua flag.
And he warns, in a secretly recorded interview with Al Jazeera, that the decision to renew military co-operation between the US and Indonesia could have dangerous consequences for the Papuan people.
Step Vaessen reports. (July 31, 2010)