1) University Students Demand a Free Papua
2) Buchtar Tabuni Police Arrested and Beaten to a pulp
3) Freeport Declares Force Majeure Pending Probe on Papua Mine Accident
4) RI-PNG set to hold Pinang Festival
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http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2013/06/12/055487772/University-Students-Demand-a-Free-Papua
Students of the Cendrawasih University put up the Morning Star banners on the unversity gates (12/6). Tempo/Jerry Omona.
1) University Students Demand a Free Papua
TEMPO.CO, Jayapura – Dozens of Cendrawasih University Students waged a protest calling out Papuans to join the Melanesian Sparehead Group in Abepura, Jayapura, earlier today. Melanesian Sparehead Group (MSG) is planning to hold a conference on June 17 in New Caledonia.
The students involved in the protest carried the Morning Star banners and fliers, sticking it to the University gate. They also shouted Free Papua slogan, saying "we refuse to be dismissed. Papua is under pressure. Papua must be freed."
Local authorities had taken preventive measures by deploying officers armed with riot shields before finally dismissing the protest.
JERRY OMONA
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Below is a google translate of posting on KNPB webpage.. Be-aware google translate can be a bit erratic.
Original bahasa at
http://knpbnews.com/blog/archives/2096
2) Buchtar Tabuni Police Arrested and Beaten to a pulp
June 12, 2013 By: admin Category: News
Jayapura, KNPBnews-Chairman of the National Parliament of West Papua (PNWP) Buchtar Tabuni arrested battered and beaten up by the police for no reason Papuan Police this afternoon (12/06) at 11:00 when he was about to head to the Mandala Field to watch the match Roma vs Persisam.
From direct observation of the media, the police, fully armed commandos Commissioner Kurnia Kiki suddenly without reason to stop a vehicle driven Buchtar, then forcibly with a punch Buchtar arrested and taken to the Papua Police.
According Buchtar Tabuni, during the trip he was tortured with rifle butts by police, causing injuries to the ear torn, cracked lips, a blow to the head until the bruises and the marks on the lower back. Buchtar detained at the Papua police until 2 pm and released, but as long as he was detained and beaten by the police did not tell why he was arrested and beaten.
Of observation in the field, Kiki Commissioner Kurnia who have incited, without making a scene and understand these rules intentionally planned to hit Buchtar. Even this afternoon, demo or free speech in order to support MSG performed by BEM Uncen Student leaders brought Jason and Kiki Kurnia Ngelia intervened with hundreds of members of the Jayapura Police Station entrance to dissolve it.
At the rally last May 13, 2013, Kiki Kurnia also shared members in incitement of violence and slaughter the people who are demo until one of them is suffering broken bones, while the Chairman of the KNPB Victor Yeimo beaten and jailed so far. Until this news was revealed, Buchtar still in intensive care in a family. While members of KNPB and Parliament will demand justice for the victims.
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3) Freeport Declares Force Majeure Pending Probe on Papua Mine Accident
US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold issued a statement warning customers of stoppages at its Indonesian mine as the investigation into a tunnel collapse that left 28 dead continued on Wednesday.
The Indonesian government ordered Freeport Indonesia to halt operations at its Grasberg mine following the May 14 collapse of a tunnel at an underground training facility. According to the company’s statement, the stoppage at its Papua mine resulted in an impact of 80 million pounds of copper and 80,000 ounces of gold to date.
Freeport will continue to book a loss of 3 million pounds of copper and 3,000 ounces of gold a day until operations resume, the statement read.
“Because of this temporary disruption, PT-FI has notified its customers of a Force Majeure event under its concentrate sales agreement,” the statement concluded.
Force majeure is a clause in a contract invoked by commodity suppliers when they can’t meet obligations because of circumstances beyond their control. The Arizona-based company said nothing of its ongoing investigation into the accident.
“We are deeply committed to the safety of our workforce and to the highest international standards in ensuring safety in our workforce,” read a joint statement by Freeport chairman James R. Moffet and Chief Executive Officer Richard C. Adkerson. “This was an unprecedented event in our more than 40-year history of operations in Papua. We are taking all actions required to prevent future incidents and to assure the safety of our workforce.”
The Indonesian government’s independent probe into the accident was wrapping up preliminary reports this week. The team had submitted its initial findings, and several recommendations, to Freeport, the company said. The miner is addressing the concerns, it said without providing any additional details.
The head of the government’s team, Ridho Wattimena, said a preliminary report will land on desks at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources early next week. The ministry plans to bring in outside experts to analyze the data.
It was not clear when Grasberg, the world’s second largest copper mine, will be restarted. Freeport said it is working with authorities to resume operations in phases and will update its production outlook as additional information becomes available.
But a restart of operations may not be imminent, with the full review still ongoing and more recommendations expected.
Copper rises
The declaration from Freeport is the second major force majeure to hit the copper market this year, coming just two months after a massive slide crippled production at Rio Tinto Plc’s Bingham Canyon mine in Utah.
The outages have pushed spot treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) down to around $75 per tonne/7.5 cents per pound, with offers as low as $65/6.5 cents, as supply tightened. That compares with $85/8.5 cents before the accidents. Miners or traders to smelters pay the charges to convert concentrate into refined metal.
Metal analysts said a prolonged stoppage at Grasberg could help keep copper supplies tight this year, despite the addition of new tons into the market from Rio’s Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia.
“From the reports we were getting from Grasberg’s customers we knew this was coming, but this will perhaps surprise a few people in terms of the speed at which it has occurred,” said Nic Brown, an analyst at Natixis in London. “The market appears to be tightening significantly, and we believe that the copper market will remain in deficit this year.”
Benchmark copper was up 0.8 percent at $7120.25 per tonne on Wednesday morning.
The force majeure affects consignments of concentrates, a semi-processed ore that’s shipped to smelters. Smelting, Indonesia’s only copper smelter, is relying on concentrate stockpiles to run its plant in Gresik, East Java, President Director Makoto Miki said by phone before the force majeure was announced. The company last received cargoes from Freeport “around the timing of the accident,” he said.
Newmont supplies
“For the time being we can continue the operations,” Miki said from Jakarta. “We’re preparing for any scenario. We have had close discussions with Newmont and we have advanced shipments arrangement.”
Smelting receives 80 percent of the concentrate supplies for its 300,000-ton smelter from Freeport and the rest from Newmont Nusa Tenggara, he said.
Newmont, which runs the Batu Hijau mine on Sumbawa island, is communicating with PT Smelting and will “do our best to assist them in providing concentrate supplies,” Rubi Purnomo, a Jakarta-based spokesman, said in mobile-phone text message.
JG/Bloomberg/Reuters
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