Kondisi hutan Belitung dengan lubang penambangan timah di Kepulauan Belitung, Provinsi Bangka Belitung.

Govt wants to use PT Timah's unproductive land for agriculture

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PANGKAL PINANG - Governor of Bangka Belitung, Rustam Efendi, asked Indonesia's biggest tin miner, PT Timah, to hand over its unproductive land to local government. Then givernment will use the land for agriculture to help people improving their life. "PT Timah owns 400 thousand hectares of land and we have asked, both in written and direct meeting but the...

In this photo taken and released by PT Freeport Indonesia, on May 17, 2013, the Indonesian unit of Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, rescuers gather inside a tunnel that collapsed in May.

Armed group shoots logistic cargo in Freeport: Police

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAYAPURA --An armed group shot at logistics vehicles carrying food supplies from PT Freeport Indonesia on Friday at 12:05 p.m. local time in an area 45 miles from Jayapura, Papua, according to Papua Regional Police.The Public Relations Head of Papuan Police Senior Commissioner Adjunct Pudjo Sulistyo announced that the vehicle convoy was returning from PT Freeport and was...

A man operates a pressing machine in PT Inalum, North Sumatra. (illustration)

Senin , 09 Dec 2013, 23:42 WIB

Government officially takes over Inalum

Some heavy equipments carry mining material from a mining site. (illustration)

Senin , 30 Sep 2013, 16:15 WIB

Govt: 125 smelters ready to be built in Indonesia