Freeport has new GM

Freeport has new GM

JAKARTA (JP): Giant gold and copper mining company PT Freeport
Indonesia has appointed Hermani Soeprapto to the position of
executive vice president and general manager with the
responsibility of overseeing the company's operations starting
from Oct. 1.

"In naming Hermani as General Manager for Freeport Indonesia,
the company has taken an historic step forward in our ongoing
Indonesianization program," company president Adrianto Machribie
said in a statement on Monday.

Freeport, a subsidiary of the United States mining company
Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold, currently operates a huge gold
and copper mine in Grasberg, Irian Jaya.

Hermani started working for Freeport as a drilling and
blasting foreman in the 1970s and was the company's deputy
general manager of Grasberg operations before his appointment to
general manager.

Hermani will replace the outgoing general manager Roy
Macpherson, who is being transferred to Freeport McMoran Copper &
Gold Strategic Planning Group in New Orleans, Lousianna.

"Being named the first Indonesian General Manager of Freeport
Indonesia is a great honor for me and the challenge of overseeing
the mining operations and its 14,000 employees is a challenge
that I'm looking forward to," Hermani said. (jsk)