Associated Press, Jayapura | Thu, 07/21/2011 6:47 PM

An army officer says unidentified gunmen have ambushed Indonesia soldiers and killed one of them in the easternmost province of Papua.
The chief army officer in Papua says soldiers are still searching for the gunmen. Maj. Gen. Erfi Triassunu said the ambush Thursday morning happened outside a village in the hilly district of Puncak Jaya.
Triassunu said the victim was a first private killed by a shot to his head. No information was available on the other soldiers.
The attack occurred one day after a military tribunal indicted three low-ranking soldiers for killing a civilian in Puncak Jaya last year.
Papua is a former Dutch colony incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 after a U.N.-sponsored ballot. A small, poorly armed separatist movement has battled for independence ever since.