"The woman is in critical condition after she was stabbed three times with a sickle," he said.

 

He said the attackers were armed with traditional weapons such as sickles, arrows and other crude weapons.

 

Bagus said the attackers also stole 60 bullets.

 

The OPM, comprising a small group of separatist rebels, have been fighting a sporadic rebellion in Papua, formerly Irian Jaya, since the early 1960s.

 

Papua, a predominantly ethnic Melanesian province 3,700 kilometres north-east of Jakarta, is a former Dutch colony that became an Indonesian province in 1964.