Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said on Monday that the government would likely prefer to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel power plants in several locations, bec

Jakarta – Last week, Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said the government had agreed to extend PT Freeport Indonesia's contract to 2041 in exchange for the company's a

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Police in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua have named six people as suspects out of 17 arrested on Saturday after a violent demonstration by former mine wo

Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has said that the contract of gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia will be extended to 2041 as the company agreed to

Indonesia's government is keeping quiet on the progress of negotiations with the global mining giant Freeport, over its gold and copper mine in West Papua.

Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has issued Ministerial Decree No.

Jakarta – Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan plans to revise Ministerial Decree No.

Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has said that gold and copper mining operator PT Freeport Indonesia had yet to obtain an extension to their operating permit.

Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – The government has called on private investors to help support its plan to electrify thousands of villages across the country in a bid to spur economic growth.

Michael Slezak – The much-discussed boom in coal-fired power in south-east Asia is being bankrolled by foreign governments and banks, with the vast majority of projects apparently too risky for the

Nithin Coca – The drama started nearly two years ago, when Setya Novanto, the speaker of the Indonesian Parliament, was forced to resign after being caught trying to extort U.S.

Indonesia says it will invite the head of mining giant Freeport McMoRan Inc to Jakarta this month to try to settle a festering dispute over a new deal to operate the world's second-largest copper m

Jakarta – Following the free fall in global nickel prices, more smelter companies in Indonesia have begun halting operations.

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Setiawan Adiwijaya, Jakarta – Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry special staff Hadi M.

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – Nineteen million households will no longer receive an electricity subsidy as state-owned power company PLN has complied with the government's commitment to only provide a

Jayapura, Jubi – Papua House of Representative Commission I in charge of government, politics, law and human rights urged PT Freeport Indonesia to stop the employees' lay off.

Fardah, Jakarta – Over the past several years, labor strikes have hit PT Freeport Indonesia (FI), but the subsidiary of the US mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold has managed to find wi

Jakarta – The government and Freeport Indonesia are still not in agreement over several aspects of the latter's contract of work (CoW) conversion to a special mining permit (IUPK), an official has

Jakarta – The Trade Ministry has issued a permit allowing PT Freeport Indonesia to export its supply of copper concentrate, as the mining giant continues to settle its differences with the governme

Fergus Jensen and Bernadette Christina Munthe, Jakarta – Freeport McMoRan Inc collected a permit to resume copper exports from Indonesia on Friday after a hiatus of more than three months, hours af

Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – Losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars appear to be pushing the Indonesian government and mining giant Freeport McMoRan to resolve a row that has crippled oper

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Angela Macdonald-Smith – The private company of Australia's Fuller family has signed a deal to explore for oil and gas onshore Timor-Leste, with the ambitious aim of beginning oil production within

Makassar – Scores of student from the Student Solidarity Concern Forum for the Papuan People (FSMPRP) held a rally this morning under the Jl.

Tiara Sutari, Jakarta – The Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) held a joint action [with the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-West Papua] in front of the offices of PT Freeport Indonesia in

Pradito Rida Pertana, Yogya – A rally by students demanding the closure of the Freeport Indonesia gold mine in West Papua and self-determination for the West Papuan nation at the University of Gaja

Klojen – The Malang and Surabaya city Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) held a rally in front of the Malang city hall in the East Java city on Friday April 7.

Jakarta – Indonesia will never give in to copper and gold miner PT Freeport Indonesia over three specific points during negotiations with the firm, namely conversion of the contract of work (CoW) t

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – State-owned electricity firm PLN recorded an increase in both its bottom line and electricity sales in 2016, according to its latest financial report.

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Jakarta – The government is facing a rampant number of lawsuits from miners, whose mining permits were revoked by the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry for, among other reasons, failing to pay

Jakarta – Maritime Coordinating Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has said Papua will get 5 percent from the divestment of cooper and gold miner PT Freeport Indonesia, which is required by law to re

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Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – Hundreds of people grouped under the United Students Front for Freeport Closure staged a rally in front of the Papua Legislative Council and called for the clo

Sara Schonhardt – Freeport-McMoRan's standoff with Indonesia over the giant Grasberg copper and gold mine is entering a new phase, as the company scales back operations while trying to force a reso

Jakarta – Dozens of students grouped under the Papuan Students Alliance (AMP) in Bali protested on Monday in front of the United States Consulate General on Jl. Hayam Wuruk, Denpasar.

Ainur Rohmah, Tuban, Indonesia – Papuans across Indonesia held demonstrations Monday against an American mining giant involved in a contract dispute with the government that has halted operations a

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – The unresolved friction between the Indonesian government and gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has had a negative impact on the Persipura Jayapura s

Timika, Papua – Hundreds of people from Solidaritas Peduli Bangsa (Nation Care Solidarity) took to the street at the Timika Indah Traffic Roundabout, Tuesday, voicing their opposition to Freeport I

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Jakarta – About 500,000 traditional miners, including 100,000 women and children, are exposed to the highly toxic mercury, a recent survey shows.

Jakarta – Indonesia has prepared Rp 40 trillion (US$2.96 billion) for acquiring shares in PT Freeport Indonesia, a copper and gold miner in Papua, as the company is required to divest at least 51 p

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – The prolonged contractual dispute between the government and PT Freeport Indonesia, which has prompted the giant miner to temporarily suspend production, has r

Grace D. Amianti, Jakarta – The government warns that it will revoke operating permits of mining and coal companies with arrears in non-tax revenue (PNBP) payment as the amount remains large.

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Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Because it is all about the world's largest gold mine sitting on their land for 44 years, Papuans refuse to be left out from the ongoing saga involving the government and

There is rising concern among business sources in Jakarta that tension between the Indonesian government and the US-based mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, Indonesia's oldest foreign investor, which h