Cibinong resumes exports

Cibinong resumes exports

CILACAP, Central Java (JP): PT Semen Cibinong, one of the
country's major cement producers, will soon resume its cement
exports to Australia after being stalled for several months due
to strained relations between the two countries.

Sugiyanto, the company's official in charge of the production
unit in Cilacap, said here on Friday that the exports would be
resumed this week following an improvement in the political
relations between the two countries.

A number of Indonesian traders halted their trade relations
with their Australian partners as retaliation against a boycott
launched by trade unions in September, last year. The unions
refused to handle goods originating from and to Indonesia in
protest against the Indonesian government's handling of the East
Timor problem.

Semen Cibinong shipped 242,371 tons of cement and 335,297 tons
of clinker to the neighboring country through the local port last
year.(45)