JAKARTA: More than 1,000 workers have gone on strike at an Indonesian gold and copper mine owned by US firm Freeport-McMoRan in a row over bonus payments, the company and a union said Monday.

The workers, mostly truck operators, started the strike last Wednesday at Grasberg, one of the world’s biggest gold and copper mines, which is located in the mountains of eastern Papua province.

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