The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry dispatched a team to Timika, Papua, on Sunday, hoping to help solve the ongoing dispute between PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) management and its employees.
The team, led by director general for industrial relations and social security Myra M Hanartani, is expected to push the two parties to continue negotiations.
“This team will urge PTFI management and its labor union to hold bipartite negotiations. The government hopes that both parties will soon reach an agreement,” Myra said in a press release as quoted by tribunnews.com.
Myra said the team would work with the Timika regent and a team from the regional Manpower Agency to find a new strategy to address the problem.
Around 8,000 of PTFI’s 23,000 workers have been on strike for more than a month in Papua, demanding drastic wage increases and better working conditions.
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