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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Arientha Primanita – A senior minister on Tuesday called for a renegotiation of royalty fees paid to the government by US-owned mining giants Freeport Indonesia and Newmont Nusa Tenggar

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., the largest publicly traded copper producer, will cooperate with the Indonesian government as it reviews the company's contract to operate the G

Timika, Papua – The military in Papua will give maximum assistance to the local police in maintaining security in the concession area of mining company PT Freeport Indonesia in Timika d

Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold's Indonesian unit has restarted concentrate shipments after a three-month strike ended in December, an official said on Wednesday, a sign th

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – As employees of miner PT Freeport Indonesia returned to work after their three-month strike, two men working for a contractor for the company were killed

Pressure built on an Indonesian firm on Wednesday to resolve a local dispute with workers at a Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc mine that has prompted the union to halt a return t

Timika, Papua – Thousands of Indonesian workers have returned to work at Freeport-McMoRan's largest gold and copper mine.

The West Papua National Coalition for Liberation has announced the establishment of the West Papua Decolonisation Committee.

James Paton – Woodside Petroleum Ltd.

Anti-graft organization Indonesian Corruption Watch will report the subsidiary of US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan to the US Department of Justice next month for involvement in a briber

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A three-month labour strike at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Grasberg mine in Indonesia looks to be nearing the endgame, after sources said the US-based miner and a workers u

Farouk Arnaz – The national police internal supervisory commission has found that officers used extreme measures during the disbanding of the Papuan People's Congress in Abepura, Papua

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Controversy has again erupted over security arrangements for copper and gold miner Freeport Indonesia, this time amid reports that armed American guards are o

Brian Robins – A breakthrough may be in sight for the long-stalled development of the Sunrise gas project which straddles the Australia-East Timor border, with Woodside reported to be p

Brian Robins – A breakthrough may be in sight for the long-stalled development of the Sunrise gas project that straddles the Australia-East Timor border, with Woodside reported to be pr

James Paton – Woodside Petroleum Ltd.

Jacqui Baker, John Monash Scholar & Research Fellow, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention at University of Wollongong – President Barack Obama is being urged to raise human rig

Esther Samboh, Nusa Dua, Bali – The government claims a compromise has nearly been reached between a striking workers union and the management of a local unit of US gold and copper mini

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) states that mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia (FI) has often incited tension and violence in Papua.

Karlis Salna – Human rights groups have called for Australia and the United States to use meetings at the East Asia Summit in Bali to press Indonesia into addressing concerns of ongoing

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The United States needs to get its own house in order before it can criticize Indonesia on rights abuses, a lawmaker said on Sunday.

Tjahjo Eranius, Kuala Kencana – After more than a decade of hard work and long hours driving a truck through the mountains of Indonesia's remote Papua province for US mining giant Freep

Jakarta – Responding to mounting public concerns over a conflict of interests in its acceptance of US$14 million from US mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia, the National Police has agai