Indonesia's military acknowledged for the first time Thursday that a U.S. gold-mining conglomerate has been providing direct ``support'' to army units accused of human rights abuses for decades in the remote province of West Papua. Joint services spokesman Maj. Gen. Kohirin Suganda said the armed forces ``as an institution'' had never received donations from Freeport-McMoRan Co. ``But we have heard that Freeport provides support such as vehicles, fuel and meals directly to the units in the field,'' Suganda said. ``That's the company's policy. It was not done because we requested it.'' Suganda was responding to an article published Tuesday in The New York Times that detailed the New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan's payments of $20 million to military commanders in the area in the last seven years in exchange for protection of its facilities in the remote province. ...
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