Ali Kutarumalos, Jakarta – Thousands of striking workers blockaded roads leading to Freeport-McMoRan Cooper & Gold Inc.'s mine in easternmost…

Around 5,000 people on Monday swarmed Zhakeus Field in Padangbulan, Jayapura, Papua, to attend the opening of the 3rd Papuan People's Congress,…

Banjir Ambarita & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jayapura – The Indonesian unit of US mining giant Freeport McMoRan announced on Monday that it was…

Jayapura – The Third Papuan People's Congress opened in Jayapura today and took place in a field in the open air, after failing to get permission…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Another worker at giant copper mining company PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), who was wounded in a clash with…

Jakarta – Copper and gold mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia has been forced to halt production following a deteriorating security situation around…

Timika, Papua – Police said they have identified six people involved in an ambush on Friday at Mile 37, Tanggul Timur, Mimika, Papua, that left…

Banjir Ambarita – At least three people were killed in an ambush on Friday near the Freeport-McMoRan Grasberg mine in the Mimika district of Papua…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The remains of Petrus Ayamiseba, 36, a PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) worker who was shot dead on Oct. 10 during a…

Dozens of journalists demonstrated in Manokwari to protest against the beating of a colleague, Duma Tato Sanda, a journalist working for Cahaya…

In connection with the shooting dead of Petrus Ayamiseba who worked at the catering department for workers at Freeport, the Dewan Adat Papua has…

Yogyakarta – Scores of demonstrators from the People's Mining Militia held a free-speech forum in front of the Gedung Agung Presidential Palace in…

Nick Chesterfield and local sources – Plain clothes Indonesian police agents in Jayapura opened fire late on October 12 outside a student…

AWPA has written to the US Ambassador in Canberra (letter below) asking that the US Government investigate the killing of Petrus Ayamiseba to see…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The world's largest publicly traded copper mining firm, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., may have to wait a…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The government will create an inter-ministry team to resolve long-standing salary and security problems involving…

Officials in Puncak Papua have started moving children out of the conflict-torn district as the situation there continues to deteriorate.

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An industrial dispute at the world's biggest gold mine in Indonesia's Papua province, has turned ugly, after a striking worker was shot dead by…

Jakarta – Thousands of Papuans rallied in front of the Papuan People's Assembly in Abepura, Jayapura, on Tuesday, demanding a…

Nethy Dharma Somba Rangga D. Fadhillah, Jakarta/Jayapura – A PT Freeport Indonesia worker named Petrus Ayamiseba was shot dead when the police…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – The situation in the highland district of Puncak Papua remained tense on Monday as a housing complex for local…

Rendi A. Witular and Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta – The fatal shooting by police of a local worker of Freeport McMoran during a union protest on…

Banjir Ambarita, Farouk Arnaz & Ronna Nirmala, Jayapura – In an escalation of the long-running Freeport mine labor dispute, one man was shot…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-204-2011

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding…

Jakarta – Rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday urged Indonesia to investigate the use of "deadly force" by police who shot dead one…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-202-2011

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding…

Kontras, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence has condemned the shooting of Freeport workers who were seeking negotiations…

Indonesian security forces opened fire on striking workers at Freeport-McMoran's gold and copper mine early Monday, killing one and…

The Indonesian authorities must immediately investigate the use of deadly force by police at a mining protest, Amnesty International said today…

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…

Jakarta – A clash between striking workers and police near Freeport Indonesia's copper mine killed one protestor and injured others, complicating…

Jayapura – About two thousand people intending to attend the Third Papuan People's Congress due to open on 16 October have already arrived in…

Indonesian police have detained ten West Papuan activists in Jayapura on Thursday ahead of a critical meeting for the pro-independence West Papua…

Alex Rayfield and Claudia King – Workers at the Freeport McMoRan mine in West Papua resumed strikes on 15 September after more than six weeks of…

Workers at the world's largest gold and copper mine in Indonesia have promised to strike indefinitely until their demands are met.

Most of…

Workers at one of the world's largest gold and copper mine in the remote Indonesian province of Papua vowed on Friday to paralyze production, as…

Karima Anjani – Union workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's extended their strike at a massive Indonesian gold and copper mine on…

Jayapura – The Third Papuan People's Congress [KRP] which is due to take place from 16-19 October will be provided with a security force of four…

No: 024-Per.Sikap/DPP.GSBI/JKT/X/2011

Solidarity greetings,

As reported in various media as well as the chronology of cases…

Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta – PT Freeport Indonesia says it cannot fulfill its workers' demands for hourly wages because their offered 22 percent…

Thousands of workers from Freeport Indonesia have been on strike since 15 September demanding higher wages and better personal welfare, bearing in…

Jakarta – PT Freeport McMoran, Indonesia's largest gold producer, has rejected employee demands for a 25 percent salary increase,…

Index: ASA 21/029/2011

Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the Manokwari District Court on 27 September 2011 to acquit…

Mimika – Thousands of PT Freeport Indonesia workers staged another protest in front of the Mimika Manpower Agency over what they said…

Thousands of PT Freeport Indonesia workers staged another protest in front of the Mimika Manpower Agency office over what they said…

New York – Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said on Tuesday that his government was fully aware of problems in restive Papua and was…

We fully support the strike by PT Freeport Indonesia workers for better wages and conditions. The government must guarantee legal protection to…

Anita Rachman – Eighty percent of Papuans live in the approximately 3,000 kampongs spread across the country's largest province, so any meaningful…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A local NGO is urging the government to propose contract renegotiations with Freeport Indonesia to force the company to…

Freeport Indonesia's labor union plans not to continue with a tripartite mediation involving the government and is seeking to discuss…