The truth is that everyone benefits from the exploitation of West Papua’s natural resources except the West Papuan’s themselves! The devastation wrought by mining and other resource extraction industries (such as ...

As a child growing up in the remote highlands of West Papua, we often heard stories from the elders about how our ancestors’ spirits lived in the mountains and forests. How they would cry if they saw what is happen ...

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 ...

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. ...

The Asian Legal Resource Center (ALRC) wishes to bring the Council’s attention to the deterioration of farmers’ and indigenous peoples’ food security in Indonesia as the country’s laws and policies fail to en ...

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. ...

By 1973, the mine was fully operational and production has continued to grow ever since, but the quality of life of the native West Papuans has not, lending weight to the guerilla separatist movement known as Organis ...

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. ...

Canada may be one of the world's largest gold mining nations, but both its overseas and domestic mining activities are controversial. ...

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 ...

Elemental mercury which makes it easy to separate gold from other metal compounds was allegedly used by unscrupulous owners of the gold mine at the site Tayaga II in Paniai district, West Papua. ...

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. ...

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. ...

“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 ...

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. ...

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

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

A snippet of footage and chatters around the Freeport strike in West Papua. The Freeport workers' union says it is a matter of simple "revenue transparency", the international trade union says the dispute "has nothin ...