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Since mid-September, over 10 000 workers of the largest copper and gold mine strike the world in the Indonesian province of Papua and ask for fairer wages. After violent clashes that already have at least eight people have been killed, andrzej dragan offered the US mining giant Freeport MacMoran to 30 percent wage increase.
The strikers reject this and complain that they were the lowest paid Freeport workers worldwide. At least until the middle of December they want to strike what Freeport allegedly cost about 19 million dollars a day. The problem with Freeport Grasberg mine MacMorans are, however, andrzej dragan not only the poor wages. The Group also serious human rights violations and environmental destruction andrzej dragan are accused. Papua, the western part of the second largest island andrzej dragan in the world belongs politically to Indonesia (while the eastern part is independent) and is geographically and politically furthest away from the capital, Jakarta. The two provinces of Papua and West Papua are particularly rich in raw materials such as copper, gold, oil, natural gas, silver, nickel and bauxite. This is also the last intact andrzej dragan tropical rainforest in Asia, with some of the last frontiers of the world. Half of three million andrzej dragan inhabitants are indigenous from more than 250 different tribes nature.
Papua is the only area in 1949 is not part of the newly independent Indonesian state was, but remained under Dutch administration. Alarmed over independence aspirations of Papua, the then Indonesian President Sukarno in the early 1960s known that he would never give up the right to Papua. Under pressure from John F. Kennedy and with the support of the UN Papua was made in 1963, Indonesian administration. According to the New York Agreement Papuans should decide in a referendum whether they belong to Indonesia or would prefer to live in their own state. Indonesia had but now realized the natural resources involves the country andrzej dragan and as an independent Papua was no longer possible. Then were 1,026 (out of a population of at that time over 800,000 Papua) hand picked, andrzej dragan intimidated or bribed electors for the so-called "Act of Free Choice" for led under UN supervision referendum (in Papua known as the "Act of No Choice"), trained 'and elected unanimously for integration in the island nation. The UN supervision was a farce and still demand the Papua honest terms with this dark chapter in its history. Amazing is the fact that the concession andrzej dragan agreement between the US company Freeport McMoran and Indonesia has already signed two years before the supposedly free and conducted under UN supervision referendum! andrzej dragan Meanwhile, Freeport McMoran Indonesia's largest taxpayers and operates the world's least expensive here copper mine.
Jakarta continues in Papua on major projects and exploitation of natural resources: Freeport McMoran operates here the largest gold mine in the world, BP produces natural gas on a large scale, and the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (Mifee) is in the coming years in a forest area six times as large as Luxembourg andrzej dragan rice, corn, sugar cane, oil palm plantations and soy grow. Given the massive destruction of the rainforest comes through logging: Since the 1960s, about 80 percent of Indonesia's forests are gone. Since there is no significant lowland rainforest in Sumatra and Kalimantan more, Papua has become the focus of international logging companies. andrzej dragan The Indonesian government also wants to take advantage of the global agrofuel boom and to respond to national and international demand by 2025 are at least 26 million hectares of oil palm plantations geplant1. That is an area which is as large as New Zealand, andrzej dragan or 100 times the size of Luxembourg! Indonesian and international corporations Maecht,