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Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia: events and estimated deaths in October 2025

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UCDP recorded 4 events of organized violence in Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia in October 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 7. The low estimate is 5 and the high estimate is 7. UCDP counts 1 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for September 2025 was 6 events.

The count for October 2024 was 1 event. The change from October 2024 to October 2025 is up 300 percent. Among the 23 months with a report for Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia, October 2025 has the 4th highest count of events. Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia holds 44 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Indonesia in October 2025. In October 2024, the share was 50 percent.

The report of the country for this month: Indonesia, October 2025.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of Indonesia has each event.

Table 1. Papua Pegunungan province, October 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
6 Oct 2025Lanny Jaya regency, Papua Pegunungan provinceGovernment of Indonesia; OPMState-based101
12 Oct 2025Nduga regency, Papua Pegunungan provinceGovernment of Indonesia; OPMState-based101
14 Oct 2025Yahukimo regency, Papua Pegunungan provinceOPM; CiviliansOne-sided111
19 Oct 2025Pegunungan Bintang, Papua Pegunungan provinceGovernment of Indonesia; OPMState-based444

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Papua Pegunungan province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of October 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Indonesia36
OPM47

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Papua Pegunungan province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20263P8PCandidate Events
August 20261P5PCandidate Events
July 20265P9PCandidate Events
June 20263P3PCandidate Events
May 20264P26PCandidate Events
April 20263P2PCandidate Events
February 20261P1PCandidate Events
December 202545GED
November 202522GED
October 202547GED
September 2025611GED
August 202522GED
July 202511GED
June 202567GED
May 202532GED
April 2025317GED
March 202511GED
January 202534GED
December 202436GED
November 202412GED
October 202411GED
September 202411GED
August 202411GED

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Papua Pegunungan province: all figures

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ConflictStats. Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia: events and estimated deaths in October 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/indonesia/papua-pegunungan-province/month/2025-10/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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