Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Another worker at giant copper mining company PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), who was wounded in a clash with security officers at Gorong-Gorong bus termina
Freeport & MIFEE Food Estate
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October 17, 2011
October 14, 2011
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The remains of Petrus Ayamiseba, 36, a PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) worker who was shot dead on Oct.
October 13, 2011
In connection with the shooting dead of Petrus Ayamiseba who worked at the catering department for workers at Freeport, the Dewan Adat Papua has declared that it is essential to withdra
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The world's largest publicly traded copper mining firm, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., may have to wait a little longer to get its Indonesian ope
Yogyakarta – Scores of demonstrators from the People's Mining Militia held a free-speech forum in front of the Gedung Agung Presidential Palace in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on
AWPA has written to the US Ambassador in Canberra (letter below) asking that the US Government investigate the killing of Petrus Ayamiseba to see if Freeport management is using the sec
October 12, 2011
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The government will create an inter-ministry team to resolve long-standing salary and security problems involving mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia, acco
October 11, 2011
Banjir Ambarita, Farouk Arnaz & Ronna Nirmala, Jayapura – In an escalation of the long-running Freeport mine labor dispute, one man was shot dead on Monday and several more injured
Rendi A. Witular and Rangga D.
October 10, 2011
Jakarta – The People's Liberation Party (PPR) reports that a person was shot dead by security forces during a clash with thousands of PT Freeport Indonesia employees at the Gorong-Goron
October 3, 2011
Thousands of workers from Freeport Indonesia have been on strike since 15 September demanding higher wages and better personal welfare, bearing in mind the great risks that their work i
September 26, 2011
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A local NGO is urging the government to propose contract renegotiations with Freeport Indonesia to force the company to pay proper royalties for its mines.
September 18, 2011
Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia president director and CEO Armando Mahler said that the company had decided not to pay the salaries of workers who have been on strike since Sept.
September 16, 2011
Hundreds of paramilitary police have been sent to Indonesia's Papua province after 9,000 mining workers started a month-long strike for higher wages.
September 15, 2011
Jayapura – The Papua Police have dispatched 114 police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel to Timika to heighten security ahead of a planned month-long work strike by PT Freeport Indonesi
August 26, 2011
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Jayapura City Police have named Julius Wenda, 32, a resident of Kotaraja, Abepura, a suspect in connection with the murder of Capt. Tasman M.
August 8, 2011
Karishma Vaswani, Jakarta – The US mining firm Freeport McMoRan has been accused of everything from polluting the environment to funding repression in its four decades working in the In
August 5, 2011
Thin Lei Win, Bangkok – Indigenous Papuans are at risk of further marginalisation and the forests and ecosystems on which they rely face destruction due to an ambitious food security pr
August 1, 2011
Jakarta – Seventeen people were killed and dozens injured when the supporters of rival candidates in a local regent election clashed throughout Saturday and Sunday in Ilaga district in
July 9, 2011
Jayapura – Protesting employees and PT Freeport Indonesia management failed to reach a compromise over the strikes which had entered the fifth day, obstructing the company's mining oper
July 6, 2011
At a press conference in Jayapura, a coalition of human NGOs and Komnas HAM called for the Peace Conference now underway in Jayapura to include Freeport in its recommendations.
June 8, 2011
The Alliance of Churches in the Land of Papua, PGGP, has called on the government to revise the work contract concluded with the mining company, Freeport.
June 1, 2011
1. Introduction
April 11, 2011
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The funeral for two employees of mining giant PT Freeport took place Sunday while a police report said the two died in a fire.
January 25, 2011
Esther Samboh, Jakarta – The government will set aside about Rp 1 trillion (US$110.34 million) from the 2011 State Budget to build the foundations for the Merauke food estate project in
November 9, 2010
Freeport McMoRan copper and Gold should be closed down and the United States should be held responsible for crimes against humanity and against the environment in Papua.
October 27, 2010
Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission has rescheduled for today a meeting between four Papuan clans and copper-and-gold company, Freeport.
October 11, 2010
Fidelis E Satriastanti – A Papuan tribe fighting over its customary rights to land in court against US mining giant Freeport McMoRan on Monday dismissed an intervention lawsuit filed by
September 13, 2010
Adianto P.
August 11, 2010
Daniel Flitton – Indonesian officials have tried to put a stop to a public lecture in Melbourne tonight to discuss the troubled province of West Papua.
May 27, 2010
Jakarta – A member of the Regional House of Representatives (DPD) fully supports a plan for the creation of Central Papua as a new province separate from the existing Papua provinces.
May 22, 2010
Markus Makur, Timika, Papua – A Papuan figure from native Amungme tribe, Silas Natkime, has secured support from influential Papua People's Assembly (MRP) to lead US-based gold mining f
April 30, 2010
Jayapura – A group of armed men lifted a siege of a gold mine in Indonesia after receiving a payoff of a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of gold and 11,000 dollars, police said Thursday.
April 1, 2010
Reports from the Indonesian province of Papua say four men have gone on trial in Jayapura in connection with an event last May when the banned Morning Star separatist flag was unfurled.
March 29, 2010
A number of NGOs have raised concern over the Indonesian government's plan to develop a massive food estate in Papua province.
March 16, 2010
The International Crisis Group published a report on March 11, Indonesia: Radicalization and Dialogue in Papua, w
March 11, 2010
Timika – The number of security personnel stationed at the working area of PT Freeport Indonesia has been reduced from 1,576 to 886, a police officer said Monday night.
March 9, 2010
Jakarta – One of Timika's native tribes, Amungme, filed a civil lawsuit with the South Jakarta District Court on Monday, against PT Freeport Indonesia for allegedly taking over their cu
February 27, 2010
Suwardiman – After nine years, support by various elements of society for special autonomy (otsus) is weakening.
February 25, 2010
Nani Afrida, Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia has bowed to government pressure on alleged violation of regulations concerning operating in protected forests, saying the company would app
February 24, 2010
Markus Makur, Timika – PT Freeport Indonesia has not helped develop human resources in Papua, particularly in the Amungme and Kamoro tribes, a member of the Regional Representatives' Co
January 25, 2010
Farouk Arnaz – Police claims that the killing of Papuan rebel leader Kelly Kwalik last month would improve security in the province's Timika area were dashed early on Sunday when nine p
Farouk Arnaz – Police in Papua have found shell casings during investigations of Sunday's ambush in which nine people traveling in a convoy of US miner PT Freeport McMoran were injured.
Sukmawati, Jakarta – The Peace Institute's Board chairman, Ichsan Melik, said that in the next 10 years Indonesia will become susceptible to separatism.
January 22, 2010
A Papua analyst says increasing militarisation of Indonesia's Mimika district and recent actions by police are incendiary for local Papuans aggrieved by the killing of separatist leader
January 21, 2010
Irawaty Wardany and Novan Iman Santosa, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has questioned officials from gold and copper mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia over the compan
Markus Makur, Timika – Two rival groups engaged in a tribal war over the past two weeks in Kwamki Lama village in Mimika regency, Papua, held a traditional peace ceremony on Wednesday m
January 4, 2010
Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Papua Police says it will not reduce the number of police officers guarding the gold and copper mine of US-based PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua despite the
December 22, 2009
Samuel Wanda – Tribal leaders in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province on Monday threatened to blockade Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold's huge mine after police killed a separatist
Timika – Tribal leaders in Indonesia's restive Papua province Tuesday called for the closure of a massive US mine linked to allegations of rights abuses, as they buried a slain rebel le