Security demand: Hundreds of women and children, families of men working for the US mining company PT Freeport Indonesia in Mimika, Papua, rally at Mimika Legislative Council office on Thursday, demanding security guarantees in the wake of a shooting incident that wounded two employees earlier this week. JP/Markus Makur
Hundreds of women and children, families of men working for US mining company PT Freeport Indonesia in Mimika, Papua, have demanded a security guarantee in the wake of a shooting incident that wounded two employees earlier this week.
They marched to the Regional Legislative Council office in Mimika and staged a rally questioning security measures that have failed to prevent more shootings near the company’s Grasberg mine in recent months.
Two miners were wounded when three security-escorted buses were ambushed between mile 41 and mile 42 of a road leading to the Grasberg mine, the world's largest gold and copper mine on Tuesday.
Police have said they were having difficulty with the terrain in the area where the shootings occurred.
The area is notorious for ambushes. Earlier this year, a 29-year-old Australian, an Indonesian security guard working for Freeport and a policeman were killed in separate attacks. In 2002, two American teachers and their Indonesian colleague were killed on the same stretch of road.
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