The Indonesian government recently became the controlling shareholder of PT Vale Indonesia, a mining company that has been operating in the nickel-rich island of Sulawesi for decades. The government, through state-owned holding company MIND ID, already owned 20 percent of PT Vale Indonesia and in February they completed a deal to acquire an additional 14 … Read more
Indonesian police on Monday named two Chinese nationals as suspects in the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Sulawesi Island that killed 21 workers and injured dozens of others. Four Chinese and nine Indonesian workers died instantly on December 24 when the furnace at PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel, or … Read more
Advertisement Indonesia’s increasingly aggressive counterterrorism operations in Sulawesi have yielded significant results in the past two years. In early 2021, Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88) arrested over 60 members of the Anshor Daulah Villa Mutiara, one of Indonesia’s most active pro-Islamic State (IS) cells. In the recent past its members were responsible for the 2021 … Read more