1,000 firms have no set address

1,000 firms have no set address

SAMARINDA, East Kalimantan (JP): Officials of the local government office of statistics could hardly believe their eyes when they found that 1,000 of the 1,600 companies in Samarinda have no clear address.

The local government has just completed a survey to determine the number of registered companies in the Samarinda mayoralty. The undertaking is part of an economic census to be held next year.

"About 1,000 companies' headquarters cannot be found at the addresses they gave when they registered with the government," chief of the statistical office Nyoto Widodo told Antara.

He theorized that the problem arose because many firms have moved or gone bankrupt and have not informed the government.

But it is also possible that the companies gave the wrong address to evade taxes, he said. "But this needs to be proven," he added. (pan)