Thousands of workers are on strike at one of the world's largest gold and copper mines in the Indonesian province of Papua.
The workers want at least a five-fold increase in their current salary of about $US3 an hour.
Union leaders said production is paralysed at the Grasberg mine, which is run by Freeport-McMoran of the United States.
A previous stoppage in July lasted eight days, but the union says the pay rise being offered - a reported 22% increase within two years - is not enough.
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