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Their message is spreading online, replete with videoed torching of the Papuan Morning Star Flag and banners calling for Jihadis to be recruited for fighting in Papua against Papuans.
The call is a concern to Saiful Islam Payage, the head of Papua's chapter of the Ulema Council, Indonesia's top Muslim clerical body. His words are translated:
"I am very worried. So I strongly forbid the Laskar who are in the name of religion for war or jihad in Papua."
He says that for now, there's no mobilisation of jihadis in the Papuan provinces.
"There are only demonstrations in Java. But no one has entered Papua. If they do, I will definitely expel them, because they make a mess in Papua."
Indonesian human rights researcher Andreas Harsono says following the recent violence in Wamena, a number of Islamic groups mobilised in Javanese cities.
He says these organisations have been making two types of public calls - one, from a Muslim NGO network, is urging people to donate to humanitarian assistance for victims of the unrest in Wamena and other parts of Papua.
The other, from the likes of the FJI and the Islamic Defenders Front, is a call to recruit jihadis to go to Papua and fight to protect fellow Muslims.
Mr Harsono says his concern stems from the way that most Indonesians do not know the situation in Papua and the context of widespread human rights abuses there.
"Most victims are indigenous Papuans. Many Indonesians do not know the problems there. But because of emotions, because of sentiment, Muslim sentiment, they might think that fellow Muslims are being victimised in Papua. Thus they will provide the ingredients to support these kind of misleading calls
While Papua has generally enjoyed harmonious inter-religious relations, Mr Harsono says groups aggressively promoting sharia law already have a foothold in the region.
"We have one in Sorong, we are also seeing Laskar Jihad, a deathly militant Muslim group setting up a base in Keerom (regency), also in Wamena - not militant, but quite aggressive. So these kinds of organisations are starting appear in many parts of both Papua and West Papua provinces over the last decade."
The existence of hardline Islamic campaigners in Keerom regency, which sits right on the border with Papua New Guinea, is not the only security concern along the 141st meridian east.
Land and sea access points between the two countries were closed last week after two people died in a shootout near the border on the Indonesian side where there's been a troop build-up
The governor of PNG's West Sepik province Tony Wouwou says fellow Melanesians on the other side look to flee across the border to safety in PNG.
But he says having Indonesian military in pursuit of them brings risk for his people.
"I'm a bit scared. I'm worried if my people go across and you never know what could happen. They might get bullet wounds or something because the Indonesians might think we're Wamenas and all this, and receive a wound, and maybe our people will retaliate or something. I don't want that to happen."
He said the border entry point to Indonesia should remain closed until security threats abate.
