The Glitter of Gold in the East
A history of the relationship between the Indonesian state and foreign business, from 1967 until the reform era.
July 1, 2003
The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suhartos Indonesia
Author: Denise Leith
Published by: University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2003
IN 1966, The Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc. mining company proudly published the book Grasberg: Copper and Gold Mining at the Worlds Remotest Sediments on the Mountains of Irian Jaya. The author was George A. Mealey, a geologist who later became the President Director of Freeport-McMoran. Grasberg is the second la
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