Indonesia has arrested 34 people and cut internet access in its easternmost region of Papua to rein in violence after protesters torched buildings, a market and a prison over mistreatment of students and perceived ethnic discrimination.
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A worker died and another critically injured in an accident early Sunday at a giant U.S.-owned mine in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province, police and company officials said, according to AP.
Two Indonesian workers were passing a road on their (...)
Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the last of 28 miners killed last week when an underground room of a giant Indonesian gold and copper mine collapsed, the operator of the U.S.-owned facility said.
Thirty-eight workers had been undergoing safety (...)
Rescuers have recovered three more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 17. Mine officials say 11 others are believed buried under the (...)
Rescuers have recovered three more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 17. Mine officials say 11 others are believed buried under the (...)
Rescuers have pulled another body from a collapsed facility at a giant gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the death toll to six.
The Big Gossan underground training facility at the PT Freeport Indonesia mine collapsed Tuesday when 38 (...)
Rescue officials say falling rocks are hampering their progress in reaching 23 trapped workers at a gold and copper mine in Indonesia, and chances of finding any more survivors are declining.
The head of the emergency response team at PT Freeport (...)
As many as 30 miners were trapped underground Tuesday after a tunnel caved in at a giant gold and copper mine in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, police said.
The accident happened Tuesday morning at the Grasberg mine in remote Mimika (...)
An American mining company has been conducting gold and copper mining explorations in Hoya, Jila, Mimika district, a local official said today.
"The company has completed its first, second and third exploration and it is now entering the fourth (...)
