State Sovereignty in Freeport Contract of Work Renegotiation

Khamami Zada, M. Mustolih, Muhammad Maksum, Atep Abdurofiq

2018

Abstract

Natural resources management in Indonesia has always been related to the politics and the issue of sovereignty. Unfortunately, the legal politics related to Freeport Contract of Work has put Indonesia in an unprofitable position since New Order era. New Order regime’s legal and political frameworks are devoid of the concept of state sovereignty in terms of natural resources management. Mineral resources management was handed over to the private company with equal position to the government, resulting in a huge private financial gain. The implementation of Law Number 4 of 2009 on mineral and coal mining did not automatically enforce state sovereignty in natural resources management. This study examines the policy of Indonesian government under President Joko Widodo using legal politics approach in renegotiating the contract of work for Freeport. The policy succeeded in finishing the contract of work negotiation with 51 percent share divestment from Freeport to Indonesia. However, this policy is still unable to return the rights and enforce state sovereignty in natural resources management since Freeport still has the control over the management. This negotiation was done in order to minimize social and political turmoil in Papua if the government failed to prolong the Freeport contract of work, resulting in Freeport ceasing their operation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zada K., Mustolih M., Maksum M. and Abdurofiq A. (2018). State Sovereignty in Freeport Contract of Work Renegotiation.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 994-1001. DOI: 10.5220/0009921909941001

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Khamami Zada and M. Mustolih and Muhammad Maksum and Atep Abdurofiq},
title={State Sovereignty in Freeport Contract of Work Renegotiation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={994-1001},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009921909941001},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - State Sovereignty in Freeport Contract of Work Renegotiation
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Zada K.
AU - Mustolih M.
AU - Maksum M.
AU - Abdurofiq A.
PY - 2018
SP - 994
EP - 1001
DO - 10.5220/0009921909941001