Grifting Grasberg. The great Indonesian gold-mining ‘mismatch’    

Indonesians claim that a writer was ‘watched’ by the Indonesian government. Duncan Graham Reports.

Citizens of the world’s third largest gold and second largest copper deposito mountain, which is worn by 286 million poverty of the Republic of Indonesia, were deliberately deported to billions of allegedly.

Australian academic historian Dr Greg Poulgrain’s decades of interviews and research claims that Indonesians have been secretly deceived by the gross valuation of the gold deposits between mining and processing.

In short, it is excavated at 15 grams in ore tone, but then it is measured for royalties in one gram.

USA Freeport-Mcmoran It controls almost 50 percent of the Grasberg mine in Western Papua – the rest belongs to the Indonesian government since 2018.

Gold Curse

Poulgrain’s findings were published as Kutukan Emeas Papua in Indonesia. When the 311 -page book was started in May this year, the author’s time, Jakarta activity reported It is monitored by Indonesian intelligence agents.

This year, Indonesia’s leading publisher will be published in English by Gold of Gold.

It shows that the gold concentration in the Papuan mountains was evaluated by international geologists in 15 grams in the last century. However, the company claims that the value is one -fifth of the original valuation. In 2023, about 50 tons of gold was recovered and mostly exported.

Retail price is currently the highest level of all time. (There are 28.3 grams of ounce.)

The western part of the New Guinea Island has been a part of Indonesia since the 1969 -controlled ‘Freedom of Election’ referendum. More than a thousand leaders of 800,000 domestic landowners voted to leave the Dutch colonial control and become an Indonesian province.

Since the 1930s, Poulgrain says that the high value of gold deposits is known by a particular scientist and intelligence services clip from Japan, the Netherlands and the United States, but remained largely hidden.

Despite Allen Dulles, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was also a lawyer representing Freeport.

In 1958, a US -backed rebellion containing soldiers and activists from Sumatra and North Sulawesi provinces launching To remove the Communist Soekarno. It failed.

President of Indonesia, President of the President, apparently did not know the wealth and was indifferent to involving Papua into the Republic. His priority was to expel the British armed from Malaya then offer Confront. Australian troops participated in the defense of the transition to Malaysia.

After SOEKARNO was thrown into the 1965 military coup, reported General Soeharto, which contains the CIA, became president.

Poulgrain says that Soeharto is not sure when he first heard Papua’s resources, but he signed in 1967 for 30 years agreement With Freeport, copper -free copper plus a 100,000 hectare privilege for three years.

Unconditional…

Indonesian equity did not have compensation or environmental protection agents for landowners. World bank bill More than half of the population of Indonesia is less than $ 13 per day and about fifteen percent of Aussie.

Mining in Grasberg began in 1972, when the US company’s commitment was $ 450 million. Investments have been huge since then. The operation, known as “a little gold copper mine ,, has an underground railway that works on the shore.

There is a company affected It goes below 350 meters from the 550 -meter open section to deep shaft mining. There are more than 20,000 workers – mostly Philippine – and 7,000 security personnel.

“Some of them make extra money by sifting waste bulk wastes.

Golden deposits were not in the 1967 agreement, and it is not known whether SOEHARTO was paid, but this is widely rumored. The monthly salary was $ 2,700.

In 1999, a Time Magazine Cover Story, under the chairmanship of Suharto Inc, claimed that the second president was the largest Kleptomaniac in Asia and collected $ 14 billion with corruption agreements during his 32 -year autocracy.

His family filed a slander case and won $ 150 million; This overturned In 2009 by the Supreme Court of Indonesia.

The best Dutch geologist and team Professor Jean Dozy found the deposit and measured more than 30 examples. They scaled the hills and confirmed 15 grams/tons.

In the Netherlands, he interviewed Poulgrain twice: ım I asked Dozy to read from the original report of the Netherlands shortly before the Nazi invasion. He studied in English:

“15 grams per ton – like a gold mountain per month.

“In the early 1960s, the Dutch Geological Foundation published a report stating that gold concentration in English as ’15 grams per ton’.

“It was a very important moment to realize that this was not a spelling error or a misbeharen punctuation.

“Since the control of the Pre -War Dutch Government on the land was very resistant, both Hitler and the Japanese kept the richness secret because they were interested in the region.”

Poulgrain, former Dutch FM and the longest service (1971-84) NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns, Dozy’s statement and

Gold deposits were the richest in the world.

Freeport-Mcmoran

Last year, freeport ” revenues 39 billion dollars, ”but an increase of 4 billion dollars compared to the previous year. However, after an accident that killed two workers, the operations are expected to be lower after the operations have been stopped.

Company in question 800,000 tons of mud in a hurry, access to the underground mine and after killing two workers, sales will be lower than “temporary operations”. Five people are lost.

Copyrights in Indonesia vary greatly according to mineral and place. For gold, it is usually between 3.5 and 5 percent. Them increased This year.

Poulgrain, focusing on the visible inconsistency of values, said he had gone to Papua about 25 times, using high -level application contacts, even if not in the mine. He said MWM:

“Copyright is evaluated on the gold in the water and ore slurry of the minerals with 116 km to the shore. This is about one percent, but the gold in the fresh mine is said to be fifteen times richer.

In Ton, the Indonesian government could finance education, health and welfare programs for years with 15 grams of copyright rights.

“Apparently people may have been deceived.”

At an introduction, Dutch senior geologist Dr. Gerard Aalders describes Poulgrain’s book as a betrayal of the Papuans.

“This is history as it should be: disturbing, enlightening and deeply relevant.

Gold curse is not just corruption. Hides.

This book lifts this curtain. “

Freeport McMoran did not respond to Poulgrain’s request to comment on his claims.

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Duncan Graham has a Walkley award for radio, TV and printed journalism in Australia, two Human Rights Commission and other awards. Now he lives in Indonesia.