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Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia: events and estimated deaths in July 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

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UCDP recorded 5 eventsP of organized violence in Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia in July 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 9P. The low estimate is 5 and the high estimate is 9P. UCDP counts 4P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for June 2026 was 3 eventsP.

The count for July 2025 was 1 event. The change from July 2025 to July 2026 is up 400 percentP. Among the 23 months with a report for Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia, July 2026 has the 3rd highest count of events. Papua Pegunungan province, Indonesia holds 71 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Indonesia in July 2026. In July 2025, the share was 20 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Indonesia, July 2026.

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, July 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
2 Jul 2026Yahukimo regency, Papua Pegunungan provinceGovernment of Indonesia; OPMState-based111
17 Jul 2026Yahukimo regency, Papua Pegunungan provinceGovernment of Indonesia; OPMState-based333
20 Jul 2026Yahukimo regency, Papua Pegunungan provinceActor not identified by UCDP; Actor not identified by UCDPState-based111
20 Jul 2026Yahukimo regency, Papua Pegunungan provinceOPM; CiviliansOne-sided303
22 Jul 2026Pegunungan Bintang, Papua Pegunungan provinceGovernment of Indonesia; OPMState-based101

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Papua Pegunungan province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of July 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Actor not identified by UCDP1P1P
Government of Indonesia3P5P
OPM4P8P

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. Names are as UCDP writes them, with two labels that the site writes. UCDP does not identify some actors: the site writes "Actor not identified by UCDP" for each of them. UCDP names some groups for a person: the site writes "Group named for a person (name not shown)" for each of them. A line with a label can hold more than one actor.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

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 July 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/indonesia/papua-pegunungan-province/month/2026-07/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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