Rio Tinto is bad news for many communities around the world. Its operations have failed to provide adequate protection of public health, the environment, workers and human rights. It is a scandal that it should be pr ...

Intelligence operatives do not report to the Papuan chief-of-police despite the province currently being under a state of civil administration, where jurisdiction for security lies with regional heads and is implemen ...

Mike Dillard, chief executive officer of Century Martial Arts and a prominent area developer, is a well known adrenaline junkie — but even he admits he was shaken by his latest adventure. What began as a recent att ...

September 15, 2011. 8,000 of the 22,000 Freeport Indonesia workers went on strike, demanding a wage increase from US$ 3.5 to US$ 7.5 an hour. ...

Mining giant Freeport-McMoRan dug up a heap of trouble in Indonesia’s most tenuous territory, and it won’t get better soon. Investors beware. Remote locations, labor unrest, violence—this is the fracturing foun ...

Freeport McMoRan has suspended operations at its gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia due to fighting among its employees. ...

The actions of one country can seriously influence lives elsewhere. West Papua is a case in point, a seemingly small and remote area of the world, but nonetheless home to 245 different tribal peoples, each with their ...

Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc will renegotiate their contract with the Indonesian government that allows it to run Grasberg, the second largest copper mine in the world, the energy ministry said on Thursday. ...

In view of the fact that there has been no response from Freeport -Indonesia or Freeport McMoran, ‘I, Anthonius Alomang, as executive-director of Lemasa, the Association of Amungme tribal people, herewith warn Free ...

The annual Public Eye Awards selects 6 of the most unethical and abusive corporations from a long list of nominations. Support West Papua and vote for Freeport McMoran this year for worst company. ...

Before the Rockefellers sent (1961) Michael Rockefeller to this part of West Papua, at the end of 1960, fellow Freeport director Robert Lovett purchased an introduction to Joe Kennedy and his son U.S. President elect ...

Around 600 Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers have arrived in Timika, Papua, to help local police guarding areas near PT Freeport Indonesia, where deadly shootings occurred in recent months. ...

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 bribery case. ...

“Freeport has long been the source of conflict… A majority of Papuans, who have different ethnic and religious roots to their political leaders in Jakarta, want independence.” In the U.S., Occupy Phoenix demon ...

The conflict in West Papua has intensified greatly in the last half-year. Violence and aggression towards Papua’s indigenous people and natural environment takes the form of abuses by the state and corporations, mi ...

A series of unsolved murders on the private property of one of the world's biggest gold and copper mines has left nine people dead since September. ...

Video from the three month long strike at Freeport Mine in West Papua, police repression and actions in solidarity with the miners. ...

As December 1st, West Papua's Independence Day, approaches, many are becoming concerned about the possibility of serious violence. ...

A rough translation of Rio Tinto from Spanish into English is Red River. Spain’s Rio Tinto is characterized by deep red water that is highly acidic (pH 1.7—2.5) and rich in heavy metals. Over 5000 years of mining ...

Human rights organisations want US President Barack Obama to address abuses in Papua during his visit to Indonesia. ...