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Title PT FREEPORT RECOMMENDS EX-EMPLOYEES TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION
Media Name republika.co.id
Pub. Date 21 Februari 2019
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The management of PT Freeport Indonesia has suggested that thousands of ex-
employees, or popular ones self-proclaimed as strike employees (mogok kerja,

moker), to take legal action through the Industrial Relations Court (PHI). PT

Freeport Indonesia spokesman Riza Pratama stated that the ranks were preparing a

reply letter to Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, who had earlier called on the
company to reinstate ex-employees and grant their rights by paying salaries to

those who were on strike since May 2017.

"We are preparing a letter to the governor. In principle, the position of the company

is that we encourage the ex-employee to take legal action through the Industrial

Relations Court (PHI)," Pratama explained in Timika on Thursday.

Pratama, who is also the vice president of PT Freeport Indonesia in Corporate

Communication, noted that the solution through the PHI channel was deemed the

best one to end the long-running polemic over the problems affecting 2,300 former
Freeport permanent employees.

"We think it is the best way. Our position has not changed so far," he remarked.

He stated that the Freeport management respected the letter of Papua Governor

Enembe, dated December 19, 2018, which was only handed over to the ex-

employees, or moker employees, in mid-February 2019. Pratama emphasized that

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