Landslide at Grasberg

Freeport has been charged with negligence that led to the Grasberg landslide. The government called it a natural disaster.

November 4, 2003

THAT morning Frederik Tokan was at the wheel of his truck. Together with other members of Operation Crew IV, he was hauling tons of gold-bearing rocks to the processing plants. Frederik was experienced in the job he was doing that fatal morning for his employer PT Freeport Indonesia. Everything was running normally. It was 5:10am when the disaster struck. From high above an avalanche of rocks, earth and mud rolled downhill sweeping away every

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