Press Release, November 18, 2009
Union leaders from the ICEM (International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions), Indonesia, Brazil and Canada representing workers at Vale and Vale-Inco (majority owner of PT Inco) signed a Joint Statement in Soroako, South Sulawesi on Friday November 13 charging that the Brazilian based global mining company disregards the needs and rights of its workers and the communities in which Vale operates. |
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One of the mining companies taking our attention is the nickel mining of PT. Inco. For more than 41 years, this company has mined Sorowako, South Sulawesi. During this operational phase, they come up with negative records, starting from emerging violence, land eviction, environmental degradation, labor exploitation and discrimination, protected forest mining, and has also blatantly violated the laws. Even though most of the stocks of PT. Inco had been released since 2007, these detrimental issues that indeed occurred in sites around PT. Inco mining have been started ever since they were owning most of the stocks for the previous 39 years. |
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JATAM Press Release, 23 October 2009
JATAM condemns the violence at a proposed Australian-owned iron mine;
calls for the protection of Kulon Progo's people and coastal ecosystem
While President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was celebrating his second inauguration in Jakarta as President of Indonesia on October 20, 2009, police brutality towards the people of Kulon Progo of Central Java for protesting against the Australian mining company PT Jogja Mangasa Iron left 41 people injured. What happened that day is one of many examples of how the government has put foreign investor interests above the local communities' interests. The Kulon Progo communities rely on agriculture as their livelihood. |
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