Freeport denies holding six foreign mountain climbers

Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA News) - Copper and gold mining company PT
Freeport Wednesday denied that it has detained six foreign mountain
climbers for intruding into its working area in the eastern Indonesian
province of Papua.

"We did not detain them. Instead, we helped them on Wednesday by
allowing them to enter our working area as two of them were ill," the
company`s spokesman, Mindo Pangaribuan, said.

He said Freeport also provided them with medical checkups and transportation.

Reports had it that Freeport detained the six mountain climbers hailing
from Britain, Canada and Ireland after climbing Cartenz plateau. (*) END