The event is being organized by the World Council of Churches and Franciscans International, with support from several partner organizations.
The discussion will focus on the grave human rights and environmental implications of Indonesia’s Merauke National Strategic Project in South Papua Province, also known as the Merauke Food and Energy Development Zone, and the operations of the Grasberg Mine, the world’s largest combined copper and gold mine.
In central Papua, the trade of metals is producing severe environmental harm. The operations of the Grasberg Mine – the world’s largest combined copper and gold mine by value and output – have caused widespread deforestation and…