Protection fee paid by Freeport to the TNI
Protection fee paid by Freeport to the TNI
Year Contribution Soldiers' Related Other
cash allowance infrastructure 2002 $5.6 million $1.12 million $400,000 $4.08m 2001 $4.7 million $940,000 $500,000 $3.26m
NOTE: Each of some 2,300 soldiers guarding Freeport's 2,800 square-kilometer mining site gets Rp 350,000 (US$39) in cash per month. Before the abduction of 13 local and foreign researchers in Papua in 1996, the TNI deployed had about 200 soldiers to secure Freeport's site.
Sources: TNI, Freeport