The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia

by Denise Leith

Even as Major General Suharto consolidated his power in the bloodletting of the mid-sixties, Freeport-McMoRan, the American transnational mining company, signed a contract with the new military regime, the first foreign company to do so. Today, in the isolated jungles of West Papua, a region that is increasingly restive under Indonesian rule, Freeport lays claim to the world's largest gold mine and one of its richest and most profitable copper mines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824825667
• ISBN13: 9780824825669
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"