Tapping the Archipelago
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Two expatriate mining companies and an oil company are targets of a wave of protests. The threeFreeport, ExxonMobil, and Newmontare all American companies.
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RECENT events are only a part of a long line of disappointments over the mining practices of large foreign companies operating in Indonesia. They have extracted a lot of the countrys natural wealth. Meanwhile, the populace around the mines is left with the dregs.
According to 2004 data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, Papua, which has the largest gold deposits in the world, is also the province with the largest number of poor people. They to
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