JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament speaker resigned on Wednesday amid a major scandal in which he is accused of trying to extort shares worth $1.8 billion from an international mining company to ensure its contract extension.
Speaker Setya Novanto has denied the allegations, including that he used President Joko Widodo's name in his dealings with executives from the local unit of Freeport McMoran Inc, one of the world's biggest copper and gold mining companies.
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