F.I Ethical Issue

PT Freeport Indonesia is an affiliate company of Freeport - McMoRan. The company is located in Mimika district in Papua province. The life of the people of Papua is far from prosperous as a result of the operation of PT Freeport Indonesia. People of papua about to sacrifice everything including the environment, habitats of animals and plants, as well as their residence in the locker with the mines that gave the wound imprint on the earth's surface.

Freeport has always claimed that they are strong committed to environmental management, and is registered as a company that has the recognition of ISO 14001, but the reality proven that freeport not responsible for what they do in mining operations. For example freeport arbitrarily dispose the mining waste into environment without any good treatment and proper waste handling that caused a decline in the carrying capacity of the environment surrounding the mine. The real impact is the loss of Wanagon lake and other beautiful lakes because of the waste that not properly dispose.

Moreover Freeport dispose any hazardous liquid which is an ingredient in the process of separating metals that is very hazardous if the waste is dumped directly into environment as a habitat for aquatic animals and clean water sources. Freeport waste containing toxic concentration that reaching the chronic levels and threatened about 75% of organism that live in the water.

In addition to environmental concerns, Freeport workers in Indonesia are known to get a lower salary than the Freeport workers in other countries for the same job level. In Indonesia hourly salary is USD 1.5-USD 3 whereas in other countries reached USD 15-USD 35 per hour. And the cost of CSR to the people of Papua that was promised was not much because it does not reach 1 percent net profits of PT Freeport Indonesia. Besides there are also many KKN cases in PT Freeport Indonesia.

This far, PT Freeport Indonesia has