Conditions at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia are returning to normal, the company said on Monday, after thousands of workers ended a four-day strike at the weekend.
The strike had helped send copper prices to seven-month highs after the walkout slashed Freeport’s production.
Separately, a senior official at Indonesia’s mines and energy ministry […]
With a view of protecting the automotive industry in Indonesia, the government will only grant an import tax exemption on cars above 3,000 cc.
“Only cars above 3,000 cc will be exempted,” the director general for transportation equipment industries, Budi Darmadi, told Antara here.
Some automotive producers in the country were worried that the government might open […]
Protest action by workers at PT Freeport Indonesia has been called off after the company agreed to improve their salary conditions, company spokesman Mindo Pangaribuan said.
He said the workers — who disrupted production at the firm’s Grasberg gold and copper mine in remote Papua province last week — have now agreed to return to work […]
Indonesia and Singapore said on Monday they had agreed on an extradition treaty, concluding several years of wrangling over the issue.
“It has been a long and arduous process,” Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda told a media briefing late on Monday in Singapore.
Indonesia has long expressed its desire for an extradition treaty with Singapore because of […]
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will conduct a campaign for cultural preservation in May this year.
Director General of Historical and Achaelogical Affairs Hari Untoro Drajat said here on Saturday the campaign is part of an effort to reconstruct temples damaged by a […]
The first day of national examinations in Yogyakarta runs smoothly without anomalies, National Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo said here on Tuesday.
“We are satisfied that the examinations run smoothly according to school operational procedure (POS) and without anomalies,” the minister said after observing the process of the tests at nine senior high schools and vocational schools […]
Indonesia`s Cultural and Tourism Ministry and The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) organized a visual art exhibition entitled `The Thousand Mysteries of Borobudur` in Yogyakarta.
“This expo marks the revival of Borobudur through visual art performances from various works of arts,” Jogja Gallery Curator Mikke Susanto said when opening the exhibition at the […]