2) Fire hits Freeport Indonesia port facility in Papua - company sources
3) Firm action to be last resort in dealing with hostage-taking in Papua
4) Another Papua police death
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1) The warehouse at PT Freeport's shipping port is on fire
Kamis, 16 November 2017 — 22:03
Papua No. 1 News Portal | Jubi,
Fires in the PTFI concentration shipment warehouse - IST
Jayapura, Jubi - Concentrated drying port of PT. Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) in Timika located at Amamapare Port, Portsite burned around 19.09 local time.
There has been no official information from PTFI regarding the cause of the fire. This fire incident was delivered by some PTFI workers at Portsite.
But the fire was mentioned in the 2nd warehouse, precisely at the conveyor position (8DC / 8010 Raport Taflon conveyor) Police, through the Papua Police Public Relations Division, Kombespol Ahmad Kamal said the fire was reported by PTFI at 18:25 local time The fire could be extinguished at 18.50 by the PTFI ERG team.
Portsite is a very important part of PTFI's activities as a means of receiving necessary materials and equipment and sending PTFI concentrates on board. As the final process, the concentrate from the warehouse is loaded onto the vessel using a conveyor. The concentrate vessel is partially loaded on the dock 'concentrate jetty' and then the ship docks at Sea Buoy A (offshore) to complete the rest of the loading by using a barge. The use of barges is necessary because of the depth of water that does not allow transports for full loading directly. Every year we ship a concentrate of more than 100 ships.
As a result of this fire, it is likely that the concentrate delivery process will be hampered due to the burning of conveyors that usually connect the plant with concentrate transport vessel. This port is also the only shipping place for PTFI mined minerals concentrate.
PTFI spokesman Riza Pratama, who was contacted by Jubi by phone and short message, did not give any information until the news was published. (*)
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NOVEMBER 16, 2017 / 10:30 PM / UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO
2) Fire hits Freeport Indonesia port facility in Papua - company sources
Reuters Staff
TIMIKA, Indonesia, Nov 16 (Reuters) - A fire has broken out at the main port used by copper miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc in Papua, Indonesia, on Thursday night, company sources said.
The fire broke out at Amamapare port facilities where copper concentrate from the giant Grasberg copper mine is processed before loading onto vessels for shipping.
The cause of the incident was not immediately clear but maintenance had been carried out at the port earlier on Thursday, sources said. (Reporting by Sam Wanda in TIMIKA; Writing by Fergus Jensen in JAKARTA; Editing by Mark Potter)
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3) Firm action to be last resort in dealing with hostage-taking in Papua
Pewarta: Anita Permata Dewi 6 hours ago
akarta (ANTARA News) - A joint task force, comprising of police and military officers, will do its utmost to use persuasive steps in dealing with a hostage-taking in Mimika, Papua, but firm action will be taken as a last resort if it fails to do so, according to the Indonesian police chief.
"If persuasive means fail and if turns out to be a deadlock, then it would be impossible for us to remain silent. The state must not lose," General Tito Karnavian, National Police Chief, said here on Thursday.
Some 1,300 people, comprising of local indigenous villagers and migrant workers, have been held by the armed criminal group in Bani and Kimbely kampongs, Tembagapura sub-district, Mimika District, Papua Province, since two weeks ago.
He stated that the armed criminal group in those kampongs was taking people as hostages.
"It is said that they (the villagers) are not being taken as hostages. But what does it mean when people are not allowed to leave the area and are at gun point," he questioned.
The number of security personnel deployed in the area is adequate, he remarked.
He hoped that the hostage-taking incident would end without any casualty from all sides.
The general, however, reminded that firm action could lead to a risk of people being harmed.
But, the police would do its utmost to minimize the number of victims if it has to carry out a stern action, he explained.
So far, 21 members of the armed criminal group have been named suspects in terror acts in Tembagapura and have been placed in the wanted persons list.
At least two police officers were shot dead and several other people, comprising of security men and civilians, were injured by the criminal group in Mimika during several terror incidents recently.
reported by Anita PD
(T.SYS/A/KR-BSR/B003)
"If persuasive means fail and if turns out to be a deadlock, then it would be impossible for us to remain silent. The state must not lose," General Tito Karnavian, National Police Chief, said here on Thursday.
Some 1,300 people, comprising of local indigenous villagers and migrant workers, have been held by the armed criminal group in Bani and Kimbely kampongs, Tembagapura sub-district, Mimika District, Papua Province, since two weeks ago.
He stated that the armed criminal group in those kampongs was taking people as hostages.
"It is said that they (the villagers) are not being taken as hostages. But what does it mean when people are not allowed to leave the area and are at gun point," he questioned.
The number of security personnel deployed in the area is adequate, he remarked.
He hoped that the hostage-taking incident would end without any casualty from all sides.
The general, however, reminded that firm action could lead to a risk of people being harmed.
But, the police would do its utmost to minimize the number of victims if it has to carry out a stern action, he explained.
So far, 21 members of the armed criminal group have been named suspects in terror acts in Tembagapura and have been placed in the wanted persons list.
At least two police officers were shot dead and several other people, comprising of security men and civilians, were injured by the criminal group in Mimika during several terror incidents recently.
reported by Anita PD
(T.SYS/A/KR-BSR/B003)
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4) Another Papua police death
An Indonesian police officer was reportedly shot dead in the latest allegedattack by militants near the vast gold and copper Grasberg mine in Indonesian Papua.
Another officer was wounded in the attack on a patrol near the Phoenix-based Freeport-McMoRan mine, announced Papua police spokesman Ahmad Musthofa Kamal.
A helicopter flew the men to a hospital in nearby Timika.
The 127-km main access road to Grasberg remained closed, Freeport Indonesia spokesman Riza Pratama told the media. The road links Timika to the mining town of Tembagapura.
The National Liberation Army of West Papua, linked to the Free Papua Movement, has declared the area around the mine a battlefield and occupied two villages.
One paramilitary police officer was reportedly killed and six others wounded in attacks last month, although Jakarta restricts media access to the troubled provinces of West Papua and Papua.
The western half of the giant island of New Guinea was transferred from Dutch to Indonesian rule in 1963. It was incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 following a UN-sponsored vote by tribal leaders that has been dismissed as a fix.
Military chief Gatot Nurmantyo said: “The Indonesian military and police have urged the Armed Separatist Movement in Papua to surrender, but until now no one has turned themselves in. Armed separatists cannot be left alone,” he said, adding that “emergency measures” were being prepared.
Freeport, the second-biggest copper mine in the world, has periodically suffered arson, roadside attacks and blockades since work began in the 1970s.
On the national scale, Indonesia’s trade deficit shrank last month with double-digit growth in the value of both exports and imports.
Exports reached US$15.1 billion in October, up 18.4 per cent on October 2016 and marking an increase of 3.6 per cent on September, according to Statistics Indonesia, while 16.6-per-cent median growth was forecast by economists polled by Reuters.
Imports also shot up in October, up 23.3 per cent year on year and rising 11 per cent from September to US$14.2 billion.
A trade surplus of US$900 million was reported last month.
Indonesia’s military say it is preparing to step up operations. Picture credit: Wikimedia
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