A New Chapter for Freeport

Negotiations on the divestment of 51 percent of Freeport’s shares face new hurdles. The mining giant Rio Tinto has a 40 percent stake in the Grasberg mine. The world’s second largest mining company has sent an executive to Indonesia.

August 22, 2017

SRI Mulyani has had nothing much to say about this. Each time the Finance Minister is confronted with questions about contract negotiations with gold and copper miner Freeport Indonesia, she does not respond. When Tempo met her recently, for example, following a press conference on the newly revised budget at the Directorate-General of Taxation last week, she responded to our questions with a sideways glance and a smile before getting into her ca

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