Freeport Indonesia Orders Workers To Stay Home After Attacks
July 15 2009 - 2:59AM
Dow Jones News
TIMIKA, Indonesia (AFP)--U.S. mining giant Freeport McMoRan's
(FCX) Indonesia subsidiary ordered hundreds of workers at a huge
gold and copper mine in Papua province to stay at home Wednesday
after a spate of deadly shootings.
Freeport's Indonesia spokesman Mindo Pangaribuan said workers
who lived near the coastal town of Timika had been ordered not to
come to the Grasberg mine, located in the highlands about 65
kilometers (40 miles) from the town.
The order came after three people including an Australian
technician were killed in ambushes along the road between Timika
and the mine at the weekend, the worst attacks on Freeport workers
in Indonesia since 2002.