A Hail of Stones at Mile 72

For several days hundreds of traditional gold miners blocked the main road to Tembagapura. But the drama ended peacefully on Saturday last week.

February 28, 2006

A SMALL public transport vehicle stopped suddenly in front of Plaza 89 on Jl. Rasuna Said in South Jakarta. It was just 3am and dawn had yet to break. Twenty-five, dark-skinned men hurriedly alighted from the vehicle. They jumped the fence and proceeded to attack what they thought were the offices of PT Freeport Indonesia, a gold-mining company in West Papua. Office furnishings were vandalized, windows broken, chairs overturned and one of the off

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