JAKARTA: At least four teenagers were shot dead in eastern Indonesia's restive Papua province in clashes with security forces, authorities said on Tuesday, although rights campaigners accused police of opening fire on protesters.

Monday's incident was the latest flare-up in violence in the eastern region, where poorly armed fighters have been waging a low-level insurgency against Jakarta for decades on behalf the mostly ethnic Melanesian population.

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