This handout picture made available on Sunday and taken on Saturday by the Papua Military Command shows Indonesian military helping to transport children suffering from malnutrition in Asmat, Papua Province. (AFP photo)A measles outbreak is feared to have killed about 100 malnourished people in Indonesia's Papua, an official said Sunday, highlighting a health crisis in the country's easternmost province. "We have sent aid, now we are making sure that it is actually distributed to those remote villages and not just stocked in a warehouse," said social affairs minister Idrus Marham. Jakarta proclaimed western Papua to be part of Indonesia after a self-determination referendum in 1969 which some regarded it as a sham. When President Joko Widodo took office in 2014 he vowed to speed up the development in infrastructure in Papua to speed up economic growth.

Source: Bangkok Post January 21, 2018 08:03 UTC