American
mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia (PT FI) has donated Rp 58 billion (US$6.38
million) to the Timika-based Human Rights and Anti-Violence Foundation
(Yahamak) to fund its programs.
Yosepha Alomang (Kompas.com) |
“The donation will be disbursed in two stages:
Rp 27 billion in 2012 and Rp 31 billion in 2013, as stipulated in the
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),” PT FI vice president for social affairs,
Demianus Dimara, said after the MoU signing in Jayapura, Papua, on Friday.
Yahamak’s founder, Yosepha Alomang, said the
funds would be allocated for education, health and economic programs, as well
as to enhance the capacity of the foundation’s management.
Yahamak was established in 1999 by Yosepha, a
human rights defender who received the Yap Thian Hien award in the same year, and
the Goldman Prize in 2001.
Yosepha said that Yahamak was born out of the
struggles of local women living in the company’s working area.
Responding to the numerous shooting incidents,
which have recently occurred in the province, Yahamak vice director Arnold
Romsumbre demanded the President take the matter seriously and to speedily
arrest the perpetrators.
“When someone is stabbed and killed in an
attack with an arrow in Timika, we can easily identify the perpetrator’s clan
from the arrow’s characteristics. But we can hardly identify it from a bullet,”
Arnold said. (swd)
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