Labor strike at Freeport mine ended

Thousands of workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg mine in Indonesia have ended a four-day walkout after the company agreed to better welfare conditions, the head of a workers' group said on Saturday as reported by Reuters.

Frans Pigome, chairman of Tongoi Papua, a group representing native Papuan workers, said they would start working on Sunday.

"We are going to ask all workers who have been rallying to return to work immediately," Pigome said. (*)