Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The government will put more oil and gas blocks up for bidding next year despite little interest from business players in previous offerings amid low prices

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara is set to resume exports following a nearly two-month hiatus after the mining company secured a recommendation for an extension of e

Muhamad Edy Sofyan, Jakarta – The Indonesian stock exchange authority says it will restrict the market for a highly anticipated initial public offering of shares in mining giant Freeport Indonesia

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Government leaders and activists in Indonesia's Papua province said talks on extending the contract of the US-based PT Freeport McMoRan mining company ignored input from the l

For the first time, Radio New Zealand International journalists have been able to enter Indonesia's eastern region of Papua.

Raras Cahyafitri and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – When it comes to the sanctity of a contract, the devil is always in the detail.

Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Inc should significantly increase the amount it pays in royalty payments to the Indonesian government if it wants to extend a contract to operate

Jakarta – Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Rizal Ramli dished out a sharp critique once more, and this time it was directed against foreign companies controlling Indonesia's mineral wealth.

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Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Investment in energy, mining, oil and gas exploration and production activities will likely fall far below the government's target this year as investors are holding off

Jakarta – Police in East Java have charged 18 people in connection with the death of a farmer who had been leading a protest against mining activities in his village.

Jakarta – National Development Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil has called on giant gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia to increase its procurement of goods and services from state-owned ent

Jakarta – The government has recently rejuvenated a plan to build mega nuclear power plants (PLTN) in the country as it has cooperated to expand knowledge on nuclear technologies and management.

Jayapura, Jubi – Indonesian Minister of Rural and Underdeveloped Region and Transmigration, Marwan Jafar, contradicted President Joko Widodo's pledge to terminate the transmigration program in Papu

Lani Pujiastuti, Bogor – Currently there are 10,922 companies holding Mining Business Permits (IUPs) in Indonesia. Of this total, only 29 percent pay tax.

Mataram – Hundreds of people seeking jobs at PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NNT) staged a rally on Monday, blocking the main access road to the company's Batu Hijau mining site in Sekongkang, West Sumba

Michael Taylor and Wilda Asmarini, Jakarta – Freeport-McMoran said exports of copper from its giant Indonesian mine have slowed to a trickle over the past month as it faces new rules on how buyers

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Giant gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has received certainty from the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry that its export permit, which ended last week, wi

Greg Poulgrain, Brisbane, Australia – One main issue is still to be resolved in the hard bargaining by Freeport Indonesia regarding its contract of work.

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Retno Ayuningtyas & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US mining giant Freeport McMoRan, remains hopeful to secure an export permit from the government after missing S

Susan Taylor, Bernadette Christina & Fergus Jensen, Toronto/Jakarta – Shares of diversified miner and energy producer Freeport-McMoRan sank for a second session on Friday, as uncertainty around

Melanie Burton & Michael Taylor, Melbourne/Jakarta – Indonesian tin smelters are finding it harder to get credit from banks and trading houses after a Singapore-based firm failed to deliver som

Sapariah Saturi and Agapitus Batbual – A coalition of Indonesian civil society groups that attended the first intergovernmental working group on a proposed UN binding treaty on business and human r

Michael Taylor, Jakarta – Nationalistic policies imposed by Indonesia's previous administration – including a ban on unprocessed mineral exports – threw the resources sector into turmoil last year.

Jenny Denton, Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan – Residents of the village of Maruwei in Central Kalimantan claim they were tricked and intimidated in relation to BHP Billiton's acquisition of an are

Jenny Denton, Murung Raya, Central Kalimantan – Villagers in remote Central Kalimantan have lodged a claim for legal title to 1,000 hectares of land within BHP Billiton's vast IndoMet coal project

Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry revealed on Friday that its plans to build 5,000-megawatt (MW) nuclear power plants in the country were still on.

Erwida Maulia & Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – As the government continues its negotiations with Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, and there are reports that th

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Copper-mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia has, in principle, agreed to change the company's contract of work (CoW) into a special mining license (IUPK) as required by th

Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – Companies thinking of investing in smelters in Indonesia to comply with local mineral export regulations may have to reconsider their plans in light of a new bill set for

Raras Cahyafitri and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – On government orders, Pertamina is canceling plans to hike non-subsidized fuel prices, raising questions on the state-owned oil company's independence.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesia has increased the price of subsidized gasoline again in line with its fixed-subsidy plan, but the price is significantly lower than its actual market price,

Angela Macdonald-Smith – Japanese oil and gas producer Inpex Corporation has written down the value of its Kitan oil field in the Timor Sea after the plunge in crude oil prices, signalling the decl

Andrew Janes – Freeport McMoRan's Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia, the world's second-largest for the metal by capacity, reopened Saturday after a worker roadblock stopped production for five day

Singapore – Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina is seeking up to 9,600 kilolitres, or more than 60,000 barrels, of diesel and gasoline for delivery into Timor Leste, a tender document showed on Frida

Dennys Kapa, Jakarta – A blockade by workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian mine extended into a fifth day on Friday, a union official said, with output still halted but maintenance workers allow

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – One of the world's copper and gold giants, PT Freeport Indonesia, has pledged that it would process some of its copper concentrate at a smelter to be built by the Pap

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry is urging copper miner PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara to complete negotiations over the amendment of the firm's contract of work (CoW

Tabita Diela, Jakarta – Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board, or BKPM, has vowed to accelerate land clearing and power generation permits to support nine investment projects worth a combined $

Jakarta – The government has dropped its demand that Freeport-McMoran Inc build a $1.5 billion copper smelter in Papua province, saying a regionally owned enterprise would take on the project inste

Jakarta – The Papuan Students Alliance (AMP) in Semarang city urged the Indonesian government under the leadership of Joko Widodo to close a number of national and foreign companies that are suspec

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia's plan to develop a smelter to process mineral ore in Gresik, East Java, has led to a protest being staged by Papuan students in Makas

Venidora Oliveira – Member of the National Parliament MP Anastacia da Costa Amaral claims some 85 percent of rural Timorese are not familiar with the prepaid electricity system set up by the EDTL E

Ina Parlina and Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is pushing the government to make copper giant PT Freeport Indonesia establish its smelter in Papua, increasing concerns ove

Tabita Diela, Jakarta – Four activists from ProDem, an activist group, filed a citizen lawsuit against President Joko Widodo and Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US mining giant Freeport-McMoR

Jakarta – Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said has criticized PT Freeport Indonesia for what he deemed was poor occupational safety at its mining site in Timika, Papua, with the deat

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe has told PT Freeport Indonesia to establish its planned smelter in Papua or risk being banished from the country's easternmost province.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has protested the government's approval of giant miner PT Freeport Indonesia's plans to build a smelter in Gresik, East Java, saying t

Retno Ayuningtyas, Rangga Prakoso & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Freeport Indonesia, a unit of the US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, has given its full commitment to the government to build