Ministry Blasts ‘Illegal’ Freeport Mining
The increasingly frustrated Indonesian Ministry of Forestry has issued a second warning to mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia for not obtaining a permit to mine in protected forest areas. London-listed Rio Tinto helped to finance expansion of Freeport’s massive Grasberg mine in Indonesian-occupied West Papua and continues to profit from it. Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan [...]
Six wounded in ambush near Freeport-Rio Tinto mine in West Papua
Six people were wounded Sunday in a shooting ambush near US company Freeport McMoRan’s massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s eastern Papua region, police said. Three policemen and three mine workers were hurt in the ambush on a convoy of buses and land cruisers heading to the coastal city of Timika from the Grasberg [...]
West Papua: Police slay Tribal Activist at world’s biggest copper-gold minesite
Last month, a legendary leader of the West Papua self-determination movement, OPM, was ambushed and shot dead by Indonesian police. Kelly Kwalik was accused of having “master-minded” recent fatal attacks on workers within the huge Freeport-Rio Tinto mining concession area. This line was adopted uncritically by several reporters, despite an earlier statement by Indonesia’s army [...]
Indonesia: NGO denounces government’s “green rating” of mines
Indonesia’s leading mining advocacy organisation, JATAM, has deplored police violence used on protestors who demonstrated against an Australian iron ore project last month.
Claiming this to be just one example of the government “putting foreign investor interests above those of the local communities”, JATAM also criticises Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment for making “green” awards to specific [...]
More shootings at Freeport Rio Tinto’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia
A weekend attack left two security guards injured but has not affected production, the company said.
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