Bosnia offers help to build generator

Bosnia offers help to build generator

ACEH: The government of Bosnia Herzegovina has offered help to
build a power generator in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, to help the
tsunami-ravaged province of Indonesia reduce its dependency on
power supplies from North Sumatra.

H. Basrun Yusuf, an Acehnese legislator, said that the Bosnian
government would send experts, currently working on the same
project in Qatar and Kuwait, to Aceh to build a power generator
using natural resources.

Basrun spoke to Antara on Saturday after a meeting with
Bosnian Ambassador to Indonesia Murat Muhamed Ramadanovic, the
Aceh office of the State Electricity Company (PLN) and the
ministry of energy and mineral resources in the capital city of
Banda Aceh.

"The power generator will use geothermal and coal as its
energy sources. The Bosnians are interested to build here after
seeing Aceh's poor electricity supply," he said.

The Bosnian ambassador told the Acehnese that the power
generator would likely be enough to supply electricity to all of
Aceh, Basrun said.

"They are waiting for proposals from the Aceh office of the
energy and mineral resources ministry and PLN, to find out the
funds required for the project," he said. -- JP