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1) Energy Minister Says Freeport Seeks Extension of Export Permit
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Bahlil Lahadalia, has confirmed that PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) has submitted an application for an extension of its copper concentrate export permit. The current permit is set to expire on December 31, 2024.
“Freeport has indeed submitted an application for a 2025 export permit. The ESDM Ministry is reviewing it with the Coordinating Ministry, as this matter needs inter-ministerial coordination,” Minister Bahlil stated at the BPH Migas Jakarta on January 7, 2025.
Bahlil further indicated a subsequent meeting with President Prabowo Subianto to discuss the continuation of the copper concentrate export relaxation for Freeport. “We will present the report to the President, and the ultimate decision will be made with consideration of the best interests of both Freeport and state-owned enterprises,” he emphasized.
Previously, Freeport had engaged in negotiations with the Indonesian government to secure an extension of its export permit until the first quarter of the following year. This request followed an incident involving the burning of a sulfuric acid unit at their newly inaugurated smelter in Gresik, East Java. The smelter, officially inaugurated by President Jokowi in September, has an annual production capacity of 480,000 metric tons of copper cathode.
“The incident involved the burning of the sulfuric acid unit. Although the damage may represent less than 10% of the overall smelter's scope, it is nonetheless an impactful event that hinders the continuation of other industrial processes.”
A new study from the University of Adelaide and The Australian National University (ANU) has outlined the first genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into the Wallacea, an archipelago containing Timor-Leste and hundreds of inhabited eastern Indonesian islands.
The study, published in PNAS, addresses major gaps in the human genetic history of the Wallacean Archipelago and West Papuan regions of Indonesia – a region with abundant genetic and linguistic diversity that is comparable to the Eurasian continent – including the analysis of 254 newly sequenced genomes.
In combination with linguistic and archaeological evidence, the study shows that Wallacean societies were transformed by the spread of genes and languages from West Papua in the past 3,500 years – the same period that Austronesian seafarers were actively mixing with Wallacean and Papuan groups.
“My colleagues at the Indonesian Genome Diversity Project have been studying Indonesia’s complex genetic structure for more than a decade, but this comprehensive study provides confirmation that Papuan ancestry is widespread across Wallacea, pointing to historical migrations from New Guinea,” says lead author Dr Gludhug Ariyo Purnomo, from the University of Adelaide’s School of Biological Sciences.
“By connecting the dots between genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, we now recognise West Papua as an important bio-cultural hub and the launching place of historical Papuan seafarers that now contribute up to 60% of modern Wallacean ancestry.”
Genomic research is also becoming increasingly important for developing new medicines tailored to specific genetic backgrounds.
“In the era of precision medicine, understanding the genetic structure of human groups is vital for developing treatments that are helpful rather than harmful, with Wallacea and New Guinea having been poorly represented in past genomic surveys,” Dr Purnomo says.
Associate Professor Ray Tobler, from ANU, says Wallacea had been isolated for more than 45,000 years since the arrival of the first human groups, and the more recently arriving Papuan and Austronesian migrants reconfigured Wallacean culture by introducing new languages that diversified and intermingled to create its rich linguistic landscape.
“Our findings suggest that the Papuan and Austronesian migrations were so extensive that they have largely overwritten the ancestry of the first migrants, making the recovery of these ancient migrations from genetic data challenging,” says Professor Tobler, who is also an Adjunct Fellow at the University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for Ancient DNA.
According to the researchers, there are challenges in reconstructing past movements of people using modern genetic data due to historical migrations and movements.
“There's also been so much movement in Wallacea in the past couple of thousand years, due to the spice trade and slavery, that it obscures the relationship between geography and genetics,” Associate Professor Tobler says.
“What we know about Wallacea and New Guinea is just the tip of the iceberg, but the use of ancient DNA can help to overcome some of these challenges and help us to understand the origins and legacy of human journeys to the region stretching back tens of thousands of years.”
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Ditresnarkoba (narcotics unit) of Papua regional police revealed three major cities in Indonesia that became suppliers of methamphetamine to be smuggled into the Papua during the past year. These three cities are Jakarta, Surabaya, and Makassar.
"The network mode from the three cities smuggles methamphetamine through shipping services to various regions in Papua," said the Director of Drug Investigation of the Papua Police, Police Commissioner Alfian, quoted from the official website of the National Police, Wednesday, January 8, 2025.
Although these three cities are suppliers of methamphetamine to Papua, Alfian emphasized that the amount of evidence secured is relatively small compared to other regions in Indonesia. He claimed that in Papua only one kilogram of methamphetamine was found during arrests in 2024.
Alfian said that in the past year, 94 people were recorded as suspects in 56 cases of methamphetamine narcotics in Papua. The suspects were secured in several Papua Police jurisdictions, including Jayapura city and district, Mimika, Nabire, Merauke, Keerom, and Boven Digoel Regency.
In addition, Papua Police also found cases of transnational crime narcotics. Alfian said his office had handled 252 cases of this type. "The transnational crime cases occurred in 22 police stations and police stations in the Papua Police jurisdiction spread across four provinces, namely Papua Province, Papua Mountains, Central Papua and South Papua," said Alfian.
Even so, said Alfian, seven police stations were affected whose areas had no reports of transnational narcotics cases, namely Lanny Jaya Police, Deiyai Police, Dogiyai Police, Intan Jaya Police, Yalimo Police, Puncak Police and Nduga Police.
ALIF ILHAM FAJRIADI | IQBAL MUHTAROM
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