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Two people were injured in a new shooting incident at the PT Freeport mine yesterday morning. The injured are being treated at a local clinic. The shooting near the gold and copper mine took place around 09:30 local time (GMT+9) between mile 41 and 42 along the road between the town of Timika and the company's Grasberg mine.
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Once again a group of gunmen opened fire at a bus belonging to the PT Freeport mine in Timika. The shooting that took place on Saturday morning injured two men. The bus was said to carry ten security guards and two cleaning service employees of PT Freeport when it was shot at near mile 42 to 43 along the main road leading to the mine around 08:50 local time (GMT+9).
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The Indonesian army has sent over 600 troops to secure the working area of the mines of PT Freemont Indonesia near Timika in the easternmost region of Papua. Starting tomorrow they will guard the area. The troops were sent in after a number of attacks on the road leading to the site. The regional commander of the army, Maj. Gen. Ahmad Yani Nasution has told that the national police chief had asked for the military presence.
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Freeport McMoran partially closed down the main access to its mining complex in Timika on Monday a day after six workers with several companies working in the complex were wounded in an ambush. A spokesman for the US mining giant, Mindo Pangaribuan, said that “to ensure the safety of the workers and their family, we closed the access to the operation location of PT Freeport Indonesia.”
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Again a disturbance related to mining company PT Freeport in Papua, the easternmost region of Indonesia. A group of armed men attacked a bus carrying employees of the company, injuring five of them. The police is still on the hunt for the group. The incident happened yesterday afternoon just before three o'clock when bus number two was shot at. The bus was driven by Sarifudin and had dozens of employees on board.
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The police in Indonesia have charged seven people for their alleged involvement in a number of shootings, some of them with deaths as a result. The shootings were organized in the area of the Freeport gold mine in Indonesia's most easternmost and remote province of Papua. All of them have been charged with murder and possessing a weapon. Two of them are workers of Freeport.
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Another shooting near the gold and copper mine Freeport on Saturday morning. The shooting occurred on the road between the town of Mimika and the Grasberg mining site. The target of the shooting was a car with medical supplies. There were no fatalities in this latest shooting.
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Gunmen have killed two people in an attack at the world's largest gold mine in Indonesia's Papua Province. This is the latest in a series of attacks that began on July 11. Local aid officials are concerned the military will use the attacks as pretext to arrest independence activists.
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PT Freeport Indonesia, a unit of Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold Inc., said on Wednesday that it will look for efficiency and was to delay exploration projects, following lower world copper prices. But spokesman of the company Mindo Pangaribuan said that the firm, which has cut 75 jobs at its Jakarta office recently, was still optimistic that the prices could recover in coming months.
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A suspected bomb detonated Sunday night near an international airport in eastern Indonesia, causing no injuries, a national police spokesman said. The explosion happened around 10:15 p.m. local time (GMT+9) at a small electrical hub about a kilometer from Moses Kilangin International Airport in Timika, West Papua, spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira told. Anti-terrorism teams and a bomb squad were immediately dispatched to the scene, he said.
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Two small bombs went off early Friday on a road leading to a massive mine operated by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. in eastern Indonesia and a third unexploded mortar round was found nearby, police said. No one was injured and there was little damage. The near-simultaneous explosions targeted a bridge and a nearby security post 15 kilometers from the Grasberg mine in Papua province, said PT Freeport Indonesia spokesman, Mindo Pangaribuan, refusing to elaborate until the police probe was complete.
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Twelve people died in a landslide near a massive copper mine operated by Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold in Indonesia's Papua province, but the firm's mining operations were unaffected, officials said on Tuesday. A torrent of mud fell into a river, burying local miners who were working on Monday night, Godhelp Cornelis Mansnembra, the police chief in the nearest main town of Mimika, said.
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Armed rival tribes fought close to a gold mine in Papua province on Thursday. This clash is the latest in a series of clashes that have killed four people according to police and an official from the U.S. company. At least 45 people were injured in the fighting in the remote region since Tuesday, told local police chief Godhelp Mansnembra.
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Thousands of workers from a mine in the easternmost province of Papua continued to strike for a third day yesterday, disrupting work at one of the biggest copper mines in the world. The workers moved their rally to a site outside the local headquarters of PT. Freeport Indonesia in Timika while protest leaders resumes talks with the company's officials in an attempt to reach a deal.
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Indonesia’s Director General of Mining said the government is hoping Parliament will approve a new mining law in March forcing companies to process ore within Indonesia instead of exporting it to foreign smelters. Director General Simon Sembiring said the new law aims to ensure that "mining ore must be processed into metal in Indonesia" but that it will allow existing mine operations a period of transition.
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"Of course the police are just as good at torturing as the army. Some of the cruder forms [include] putting a table leg onto the foot of somebody and then somebody heavily dancing on the table, which can be extremely painful. So, I mean torture is routine."
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For the founders of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, this weekend's deal for Phelps Dodge Corp. marks a step away from the source of their wealth - and the belief that its product has still a long way to run. New Orleans-based Freeport in a friendly deal that would forge the world's biggest publicly traded copper miner. The acquisition would spread out Freeport's source of its copper to the Americas, where Phelps Dodge operates mines in the U.S., Chile and Peru.
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An Indonesian court on Tuesday convicted seven men of leading an armed ambush that killed two American school teachers in remote Papua province four years ago, and sentenced the alleged ringleader to life imprisonment. Chief Judge Andriani Nurdin of the Central Jakarta District Court said defendant Antonius Wamang had 'committed a gross violation of human rights for attacking civilians' and deserved harsher punishment than the 20-year sentence asked by prosecutors, the state-run Antara news agency reported.
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Indonesian police on Friday detained 43 indigenous Papuans for blocking a main road to the world's largest gold and copper mine with burning tires, an official said. The illegal miners, including two women, were picked up at dawn Friday outside the Grasberg mine operated by the New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., said local police chief Lt. Col. Jimmy Tuilan. The protest did not effect activities at the mine, he said.
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An Indonesian court has jailed 11 people for taking part in violent protests against a US-run mine in Papua province which left six people dead in March. Hundreds of protesters clashed with security officers near Papua's capital Jayapura over the mine run by US giant Freeport-McMoran in March.
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Fifty years ago, Clifford Geertz wrote: " ... archipelagic in geography, eclectic in civilization, and heterogeneous in culture, Indonesia flourishes when it accepts and capitalizes on its diversity and disintegrates when it denies and suppresses it". The comment, part of Geertz's assessment of the political situation in Indonesia in the late fifties, also anticipates the future of Indonesia.
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The Indonesian government won't consider a unilateral closure of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s (FCS) massive Grasberg mine in Papua despite allegations of poor environmental management at the facility, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Monday.
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Four people died today in an exchange of fire between soldiers and suspected separatists in Indonesia’s remote resource-rich province of Papua, a military spokesman said.
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Protests in Indonesia's Papua province threaten the resource-rich region's peace process, which will collapse without the support of the Indonesian government, the International Crisis Group said. The government sent additional forces to Papua's capital, Jayapura, after the deaths of five security officers last week during protests to demand the closure of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s Grasberg mine, the world's largest for gold and second-biggest for copper.
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The Newmont mining company suspended gold and copper exploration on Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island after unidentified people torched a camp for its workers, the company said on Monday. No one was injured Sunday when the assailants set the remote camp in Elang district on fire, but the attack underlined the difficulties facing foreign mining companies working in remote regions of the sprawling archipelago.
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Protesters demanding the closure of a U.S.-owned gold mine in Papua clashed with police Wednesday in the second day of violent protests in the province. Two officers were injured after being hit with protesters' arrows, police said. Around 200 protesters fought with police as they tried to march on the Grasberg mine, run by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Lt. Col. Dedi Junaidi told el-Shinta radio station.
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Students have staged rallies in many parts of Indonesia over the last several days demanding the closure of U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoran, which they accused of stealing wealth and destroying environment. In the southern Java town of Yogyakarta on Thursday, students took to the streets urging the government to close Freeport's minein the country's most remote province of Papua.
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Production at a mine operated by PT Freeport Indonesia, a unit of Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc, remained suspended for a third day as negotiations with protesters staging a blockade pushed on, police said. The stand-off began late Tuesday after security forces attempted to evict small-scale miners who were looking for gold in the waste deposits from the massive Freeport-McMoRan mine in a remote Papua province, claiming they were acting illegally.
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PT Freeport Indonesia, a unit of Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc, said a South Jakarta building in which it rents an office space has been attacked by a group of vandals. 'We don't own the building, we are only a tenant. No damage was done to our offices,' spokesman Budiman Moerdijat said. He would not give details of the attack on Plaza 89 building in Kuningan.
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The government may review the mining contract of PT Freeport Indonesia, pending the results of an investigation into whether its operations in Papua are causing pollution, The Jakarta Post reported citing Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro.
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Indonesian authorities are hunting for four more people over the 2002 killing of two Americans in Papua province, police said on Monday after declaring eight men suspects in the case last week. The eight were arrested on Wednesday over an ambush that killed two Americans and an Indonesian, all teachers from a school run by PT Freeport Indonesia, a unit of U.S.-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., which operates mines in Papua's mountains.
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Searchers found Sunday the wreckage of a light plane that crashed into a mountain in Indonesia's remote Papua province, killing all 17 people on board, the official Antara news agency reported. Five days after it went missing, searchers found the wreckage of the Twin Otter five miles from its destination, the town of Enarotali, Antara said.
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The US State Department has put six current and former Indonesian military officers, including a leading presidential candidate, on a watch list of indicted war criminals, in effect barring them from entering the United States, US Government officials say. The list includes Wiranto, the former head of the armed forces and a leading presidential candidate in this year's elections. The Defence Department once considered Wiranto a reform-minded professional.
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A team of United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents has left Papua, Indonesia, after questioning a number of witnesses in connection with the ambush in which three teachers, including two Americans, were killed in August 2002. Papua Police chief Insp. Gen. Timbul Silaen said on Thursday that the FBI team had left the province three days ago.
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Indonesia's chief security minister said Thursday Jakarta is acting to protect vital facilities such as those of major U.S. oil and mining firms in the event of war between the United States and Iraq. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country and opposition to a U.S. attack on Iraq is widespread, with many analysts predicting such an act could spark violence by extreme elements in the country.
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Indonesia opened the door on Friday to FBI involvement in a faltering investigation over the killing last August of two American school teachers and an Indonesian in restive Papua province. Police have said weapons used in the August 31 attack near a U.S.-owned mine such as M-16 rifles were mainly the same type as those carried by troops stationed near the site, but that it was too early to point fingers at military involvement.
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The Indonesian military through its lawyers asked the U.S.-based Washington Post newspaper on Thursday to apologise over a story or face a $1 billion lawsuit.
The story suggested that a shooting attack near the Freeport mine in Papua on August 31 in which two Americans and one Indonesian were killed might be linked to a conversation among top Indonesian military commanders including its chief, Endiartono Sutarto.
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An earthquake shook Indonesia's remote eastern province of Papua, killing at least one person, injuring dozens and tearing a two-mile crack in the ground, officials said on Friday. Thursday night's quake measured 6.4 on the Richter scale, causing a landslide, flooding and damaging dozens of homes in the Ransiki district on the bay of Manokwari, 2,000 miles northeast of Jakarta.
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A home-made bomb killed three young women in the Indonesian city of Ambon in the strife-torn Moluccas islands on Thursday, police said. Witnesses and officials said the bomb also wounded at least three people when it went off near a sports field used by the region's rival Muslim and Christian communities. "Three people died of shrapnel wounds. All of them were women. All of them were young," said Lieutenant Victor Hattu from the Moluccas police.
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Hundreds of police and military personnel are stepping up their search of the remote Papuan jungle for the attackers of a convoy of mainly international workers at the weekend. Three people -- two Americans and an Indonesian -- were killed and 10 others injured in the attack which occurred on a road leading to a U.S.-owned copper and gold mine in the remote Indonesian province of Papua, formerly called Irian Jaya. Eight wounded -- including a six-year-old girl -- have been taken to Townsville hospital in northern Australia.
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With new powers under the special autonomy laws, the provincial legislature in Irian Jaya (Papua) has dropped all fees for elementary and high school students as of the 2002/2003 academic year to give children more of an opportunity to receive a quality education. Jerry Haurissa, chief of the local education office, said financial issues had been one of the main problems preventing school-age children from attending school.
"With the new policy, all Papuan children aged between six and 18 are expected to go to school in attempt to improve the human resource quality in the province," he told The Jakarta Post here on Tuesday.
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