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Indonesia's Constitutional Court granted greater power to local administrations to designate areas for mining by amending some articles in the 2009 Mining Law, according to a ruling ann

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Timika – The chief of police in Papua has announced that he will be setting up a special team to investigate recent acts of terror in the vicinity of the Freeport copper-and-gold mine w

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – In spite of the adverse impact from the excessive use of fossil fuels, Indonesia would be unlikely to meet the target of conversion to renewable resource

Stephanie March – East Timor is considering walking away from its treaty with the Australian government and Woodside Petroleum over the development of oil and gas fields in the Timor Se

Woodside Petroleum Ltd, along with ConocoPhillips and other resource companies, is facing demands by the East Timor government to pay up to $3 billion in disputed tax payments related t

Peter Cronau and Andrew Fowler – Potentially billions of dollars of tax is being withheld from the government of East Timor by some of the world's richest oil and gas companies operatin

Timika, Papua – Police in Papua's Mimika district will use CCTV recordings to help identify members of a 300-strong mob that attacked a Freeport Indonesia office on Friday.

Jonathan Vit – New Zealand's public pension fund pulled more than $1 million in investment from Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold over allegations of human rights offenses committed by

IHRC is delighted that the NZ Superannuation Fund has decided to pull its investments from the Freeport McMoran mining giant.

A mob of some 300 people on Friday attacked an office of gold mining company Freeport Indonesia in Timika, Papua.

Jakarta – Local businesses strongly criticized the House of Representatives' decision to approve a rise in electricity prices next year, stating that bureaucrats had decided "to murder

Tito Summa Siahaan – There are two sides to every coin, but according to the chief of Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, the media

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – After weeks of deadlock, the House of Representatives has approved a government proposal to raise electricity rates and the subsidized fuel allocation.

Rangga Prakoso – Judges at the South Jakarta municipal court on Thursday rejected a civil suit filed by the Indonesian Human Rights Committee For Social Justice (IHCS) against a subsidi

Tri Listiyarini & Dion Bisara, Nusa Dua, Bali/Jakarta – A lack of distribution infrastructure is crippling Indonesia's ability to utilize its enormous reserves of gas, Vice Presiden

Banjarmasin – The central government has expressed interest in constructing a nuclear power plant in West Kalimantan, citing the island large supplies of uranium and geologic stability,

Rangga Prakoso & Tito Summa Siahaan – Little progress has been made in attempts by the government to renegotiate the mining contract held by Freeport Indonesia in an effort to impro

Tito Summa Siahaan – The government has proposed raising the electricity tariff incrementally every three months starting next year, undeterred after a similar plan ended abruptly this

Yoga Rusmana & Fitri Wulandari – A shortage of electricity in Indonesia may hamper President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to ban all raw-ore exports by 2014 as he seeks to increa

Tito Summa Siahaan – Freeport Indonesia has agreed to raise its royalty payment to the government, according to a statement from a top economic minister on Monday.

Tatyana Shumsky, New York – Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s (FCX) Indonesia operations are approaching "normal" levels after a first quarter marked by labor disruptions, chief

The government of the Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) has started legal action against a number of international oil groups, including Conoco-Phillips, in order to recover taxes th

Joe Schneider and James Paton – ConocoPhillips, a US oil and gas producer, challenged a new tax assessment by the government of East Timor that may add billions of dollars to the Asian

East Timor is seeking "possibly billions" of dollars from foreign oil companies, including US-owned ConocoPhillips, in unpaid taxes, the government said in a statement received Wednesda

Peter Ker – Academics and other dedicated election observers will not be the only Australians watching today's East Timor election with interest.

The East Timor government believes that the choice of the south coast of the country for the new gas pipeline running from the Greater Sunrise field, which it shares with Australia, wil

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The National Police say the shooting of a Papua Police Mobile Brigade Officer is not related to any recent shootings that have occurred in the easternmost pr

Ardi Mandiri – Less than a week after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono banned the use of subsidized fuel for government vehicles, public officials in Depok announced plans to change v

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Bayu Marhaenjati & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Officials and analysts criticized on Monday the recently enacted ban on state-owned vehicles using subsidized

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Bayu Marhaenjati – As one of the state institutions subject to a ban on using subsidized fuel for its vehicles as of the start of this month, the Jakarta

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang & Camelia Pasandaran, Samarinda – As many as 500 people from 12 individual groups have set up a blockade of ships carrying coal on Mahakam River in Samarind

Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced five new policies on Tuesday aimed at reducing government expenditures on subsidized fuel, including limiting its sale

Liam Cochrane, Dili – The government in East Timor has shown off a European-built pipeline which it says can be used to send natural gas to the country from the disputed Greater Sunrise

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – At least 115 companies have carried out mining activities in 471,714 hectares of productive and protected forests without licenses, according to a Supreme Au

Arientha Primanita – The government on Thursday postponed a planned restriction on certain types of private vehicles from purchasing subsidized fuel as international oil prices decline.

Arientha Primanita – A plan to restrict the sale of subsidized fuel to select vehicles was "delayed indefinitely" by the Indonesian government on Thursday.

The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) is a vast mega-project, a plan for over a million hectares of plantations and industrialised agriculture that threatens the people

Steve James, New York – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc whose recent profits were hurt by lower output from its strike-hit Grasberg mine in Indonesia, expects production to retur

Jakarta – Luxury vehicle owners are still mixing subsidized and non-subsidized fuels, like Premium and Pertamax, even though the government has urged financially-capable individuals not

Indonesia will go ahead with its plan to limit the use of subsidized fuels by private cars to meet the subsidized fuel quota target of 40 million kiloliters set in the revised 2012 stat

Indonesia plans to impose a 25 percent export tax on coal and base metals this year, jumping to 50 percent in 2013, an industry ministry official said on Tuesday, as the major producer

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Timika – The Indonesian subsidiary of US mining giant McMoRan said on Monday it had resumed operations after a two-week suspension caused by fighting among workers.

Muhamad Al Azhari – Keen to strengthen the country's control over its own natural resources, the government has come out with a new regulation that would force foreign companies holding

Indonesia will force foreign firms to sell down stakes in mines by the 10th year of production, with domestic ownership to be at least 51 percent, in a move likely to hurt existing mine

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – Authorities in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, revoked the permits of two coal-mining firms based on an evaluation of their environmental credentials, but activis

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