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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Indonesia military says no 'direct' payments from US miner AFP - Wednesday, March 25 JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's military denied Tuesday a disclosure by US mining giant Freeport McMoRan that the company pays for troops to guard a massive gold and copper mine in the Papua region. ADVERTISEMENT The denial came after Freeport told shareholders it had paid support costs for the military guarding the Grasberg mine in the remote eastern province, where troops are regularly accused of human rights abuses. The payments have continued despite efforts by the Indonesian government to stop the military from acting as paid protection for private interests. The company says it is doing nothing illegal. Military spokesman Sagom Tamboen told AFP that while an unspecified number of soldiers indirectly received allowances from Freeport for providing security at the mine, they were there "on the request of police." Freeport's allowance payments "cannot be said to be given to the TNI (Indonesian military)," Tamboen said. "Actually it is given to the police and the police give it to the TNI because the TNI are assisting the police." He added: "My explanation is that the laws and regulations in Indonesia do not allow the military to be a security force at vital national assets anymore. That duty has been diverted to the national police." However, a spokesman for Arizona-based Freeport has told AFP the company paid less than 1.6 million dollars to the police and military last year to provide a "monthly allowance" for personnel at and around Grasberg. That is part of eight million dollars Freeport paid in broader "support costs" for 1,850 police and soldiers protecting the site last year, according to a company report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. "These payments are approved directly by the security institutions that receive the support and are part of PT-FI's (Freeport's) overall budget and workplan each year that is approved by the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources," spokesman Bill Collier said. Asked repeatedly to clarify the situation, an official at the energy ministry refused to comment but said a written response was being prepared. Tamboen said he was seeking clarification from Freeport on the nature of its payments and said he was unaware of any direct security agreement between the company and the military. Indonesian troops have been accused of rights abuses as they seek to snuff out support for a low-level separatist insurgency in the resource-rich but impoverished region. A 2007 ministerial decree, the latest of a number of legal measures, set a six-month deadline for the military to give up responsibility for security at "vital national assets," of which Graberg is one, to the police. Indonesian human rights activist Rafendi Djamin has said Freeport's disclosure of payments to the military means it is breaking Indonesian law. "The safest thing to say for sure is they (payments to the military) are against the law. They are against government regulations, ministerial as well as presidential decrees," Djamin said last week. 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