Jayapura – The Papua Police have nabbed 13 members of an armed separatist group led by Ayub Waker following the deaths of two Mobile Brigade personnel and a Freeport employee in Utikini village, Mi
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January 8, 2015
January 7, 2015
Jakarta – Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has appointed former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief Maroef Sjamsuddin as its new president director to replace Rozik B.
January 2, 2015
Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – The bloodied bodies of two policemen and a security officer were found in Utikini, near the Grasberg mine in Papua, on Thursday night.
November 28, 2014
Timika – Activities at the PT Freeport Indonesia (PT FI) Amamapare Port Site in Timika, Papua, returned to normal on Thursday after access to the location – which had been blockaded by
October 13, 2014
Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesian unit can resume open-pit mining at its Grasberg complex, one of the world's biggest copper mines, after it agreed to improve safety following
August 8, 2014
Copper mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia aims to complete 7.5 percent of its smelter development in the coming months, although the company has not released details as to when it plans
August 7, 2014
Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesia unit will complete on Thursday loading for its first copper concentrate export shipment since new mining rules were introduced in the Southeast Asian na
July 26, 2014
Raras Cahyafitri and Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Less than three months before the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is due to leave office, it sealed a strategic
June 12, 2014
Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Indonesian officials keep sending mixed messages regarding the contract renegotiation with Freeport Indonesia – with a minister saying it is imperative
June 10, 2014
Satria Sambijantoro and Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The outgoing administration will not ink an extension deal with PT Freeport Indonesia concerning its contract to mine the world large
March 28, 2014
Rangga Prakoso & Fidel Ali, Jakarta – The government will allow Newmont Nusa Tenggara and Freeport Indonesia to resume exports of concentrates soon after the two companies showed th
February 28, 2014
Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold said its Indonesian unit may need to declare force majeure on copper concentrate sales if a dispute with the government over export taxes dr
February 24, 2014
Jayapura – Three police officers have been arrested for stealing cable belonging to gold and copper mining company PT Freeport Indonesia (FI) in Timika, Papua.
February 15, 2014
Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights, Komnas HAM, has released its findings regarding serious human rights violations in the Freeport big Gossan tunnel cave-in that claimed t
January 30, 2014
Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The Indonesian government said on Thursday that it would stick to its guns on the export tax for unprocessed ores, defying stern opposition and lobbying a
January 12, 2014
Kanupriya Kapoor & Yayat Supriatna – Indonesia, one of the world's biggest resource exporters, halted all mineral ore exports on Sunday in a bid to promote domestic processing, but
December 28, 2013
Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A group of gunmen fired on a convoy of trailer trucks owned by US mining giant Freeport Indonesia in Timika, Papua on Friday.
December 11, 2013
Two vehicles operating at copper and gold producer PT Freeport Indonesia's (PTFI) mine were targeted in shootings on Sunday and Monday in Timika, Papua.
November 7, 2013
Olivia Rondonuwu – High in the snow-capped mountains, the sight of tribesmen roaming in loincloths contrasts sharply with that of miners using hi-tech machinery to extract gold and copp
October 18, 2013
Jenny Denton, Melbourne – Swedish pension fund authorities have followed the lead of counterparts in Norway and New Zealand in divesting all holdings in the American company Freeport Mc
July 26, 2013
A coalition of organisations has requested the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Commission to take action under its Early Warning and Urgent Action procedures to address the di
July 11, 2013
Jakarta – The Custom Institute of Amungme Tribe (Lemasa) in Papua has called on the central government to involve customary communities in the renegotiation process for the PT Freeport
July 10, 2013
Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc has resumed copper concentrate shipments from its mine in Grasberg, Indonesia, but expects output this year to drop by a fi
June 25, 2013
Jakarta – Mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia will resume operations in its open-pit with government permission after being idle for more than a month following a fatal tunnel collapse.
June 18, 2013
Carlos Paath – The Mimika Regency government in Papua has asked the central government to push forward talks with Freeport Indonesia in order to speed up the reopening of the company's
Banjir Ambarita – Dozens of people vandalized Freeport facilities and looted ore concentrate at the copper and gold giant's mining district in Mimika, Papua, on Sunday.
June 17, 2013
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The situation in Tembagapura mile 74, a Freeport Indonesia mining area, is reported to be quiet again after incidents of property damage perpetrated by a
June 2, 2013
Rangga Prakoso – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold reported another death at its Grasberg mine in Papua on Sunday after a worker was seriously injured while conducting maintenance on a
May 22, 2013
A day after rescuers pulled the last body from the rubble of a recent mine collapse that killed 28 workers, Freeport has turned its attention to a review of safety measures at its under
May 16, 2013
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Attempts at PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) to rescue workers trapped in a tunnel in the Big Gossan training facility in Mimika regency, Papua, have been ham
May 15, 2013
A police emergency response unit found four bodies and rescued 10 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold's Grasberg complex in Tembagapura, Papua, o
April 22, 2013
Vicky Anggriawan, Jakarta – Scores of people from a number of difference social organisations that are part of National Papua Solidarity (Napas) held a protest action in front of the PT
April 19, 2013
Nethy Dharma Somba, Papua – The Papua administration has announced that it will ask for a 10 percent stake in mining giant PT Freeport due to the fact that the company operates on Papua
January 23, 2013
Papuan civilians around Timika have again been made wary of military provocations that may potentially revive a bloody horizontal conflict, after a former Freeport mine worker's mutilat
January 3, 2013
ID/Retno Ayuningtyas – Mining company Freeport Indonesia has agreed to trim its concession area in Timika, Papua, indicating that the government's efforts to renegotiate mining contract
December 14, 2012
[The following is a speech by ETAN's Chris Lundry at a Freeport protest in Phoenix, AZ, on December 14, 2012.]
November 9, 2012
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
September 27, 2012
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
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.
September 26, 2012
IHRC is delighted that the NZ Superannuation Fund has decided to pull its investments from the Freeport McMoran mining giant.
September 22, 2012
A mob of some 300 people on Friday attacked an office of gold mining company Freeport Indonesia in Timika, Papua.
September 19, 2012
Mimika, Papua – Another vehicle owned by mining giant Freeport Indonesia was fired on by unknown assailants while traveling along the dangerous Jalan Tanggul Timur road near Timika on T
September 18, 2012
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
Farouk Arnaz – Unknown gunmen fired on two cars along the road between Timika and the Grasberg mine operated by Freeport Indonesia in Papua on Friday but no casualties were reported, po
September 13, 2012
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
August 22, 2012
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
July 23, 2012
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.
July 20, 2012
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
July 19, 2012
Selwyn Moran – West Papua, the easternmost island under Indonesia's control, is a land beset by troubles.
July 8, 2012
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Three more people – one soldier and two civilians – were killed on Saturday in the latest bloody incident in Papua at a time when the authorities have bee