Tag Archives: Kamoro

Kamoro People Resist Freeport Smelter Development on their Ancestral Land

By admin | Published: June 11, 2015

PT Freeport Indonesia is planning to build a smelter in Mimika, in Papua, but this plan has met with opposition from the Kamoro indigenous people because their ancestral land will become even more polluted by the company’s waste. Their environment has already been destroyed by mine tailings from Freeport’s ongoing operation. And the plans are […]

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Kamoro people take a stand against Freeport smelter plans

By admin | Published: March 21, 2015

Since Indonesia decided to enforce its 2009 mineral law that obliged mining companies to process ore within Indonesia, attention has focussed on the biggest mining operation in the country: Freeport McMoran’s gold and copper mine in Timika, Papua. Freeport wanted to build a smelter in East Java, where better infrastructure means a lower-cost operation, but […]

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Timika: Local Leader Revokes PT Pusaka Agro Lestari’s Plantation Permit

By admin | Published: December 21, 2014

A local government leader has taken the brave step of revoking the permit of an oil palm company that has already been operating for several years. Following several complaints by local civil and religious leaders about the negative effects of PT Pusaka Agro Lestari’s plantation on the Kamoro people in Mimika Regency, Eltinus Omaleng, who […]

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Bishop of Timika: Oil Palm Plantations in Timika Threaten Coastal Communities.

By admin | Published: December 1, 2014

The bishop of Timika, Mgr. John Philip Saklil, Pr has asked local government to take a firm stand on PT Pusaka Agro Lestari (PAL)’s oil palm plantation which has been operating in Mimika regency since 2011. “The environmental impacts which have emerged are quite significant. This will become a serious threat for residents along the […]

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Well-known missionary asks for oil palm plantation to be stopped.

By admin | Published: October 4, 2014

A well-known religious figure around Mimika Regency in Papua, Father Bert Hogenboorn OFM, has asked the Bupati of Mimika Eltinus Omaleng to put a stop to the large-scale planting of oil palm currently being undertaken by PT Pusaka Agro Lestari because it is destroying forests. “I hope the Bupati of Mimika is really aware of […]

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SKP: An Oil Palm Plantation is Threatening the Kamoro People in Mimika

By admin | Published: February 18, 2014

The Justice and Peace Secretariat (Sekretariat Keadilan dan Perdamaian – SKP) of Timika Diocese in Papua are worried about how the environmental impacts of PT Pusaka Agro Lestari clearing forest for an oil palm plantation could affect the survival of the Kamoro people along the coast of Mimika Regency. The co-ordinator of SKP in the […]

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