Cable plant constructed

Cable plant constructed

JAKARTA (JP): PT Catur Yasa, a privately owned construction
firm, and Sapura Holding of Malaysia will build a $500 million
cable plant in Medan, North Sumatra, to support its plan to
install 500,000 telephone lines in Sumatra.

Catur Yasa's president, Kusumo Martoredjo, was quoted by
Bisnis Indonesia as saying that the construction of the plant
will be finished in the next 10 months. He declined to elaborate
on the plant's production capacity.

In 1991, Catur Yasa, which is partially controlled by
relatives of the State Minister of National Development Planning
Ginandjar Kartasasminta, won the tender for the installation of
100,000 telephone lines in Sumatra. (hdj)