The vast Grasberg copper-gold mine in Indonesian-occupied West Papua is a continuing source of tension between the Indonesian government and those campaigning for West papuan independence. London-based Rio Tinto helped…
…complex – Grasberg in Papua province – that will end a 94-day strike on Saturday, 17 December. The strike pitted a low-wage but determined and enlightened workforce against a global…
…conglomerate. (The Grasberg mine’s internal “security” is in the hands of PT Securicor Indonesia – part of G4S, the world’s most extended network of its kind that is based in…
Indonesian Police accused of accepting bribes There’s no end in sight to the world’s biggest wages-related mining strike, as Freeport workers continue blockading (West) Papua’s Grasberg operations, following Indonesian police…
…have been murdered in Freeport-Rio Tinto’s huge Grasberg lease area in Papua (West Papua). Moreover, one Indigenous delegate was shot dead by police, and 300 arrested, during a Congress held…
