Dutch firm to help in regreening

SAMARINDA, East Kalimantan: A chemical and drug company from the Netherlands will assist the Bontang city administration in regreening 27 hectares of critical land in the province.

Dutch Staro Mine Kaltim Milamine president Mike Kwiatkoeski said after a meeting with the deputy governor here on Wednesday that his company would assist in the regreening program in two separate abandoned areas in Bontang.

Twenty hectares is located on land belonging to state fertilizer company PT Pupuk Kaltim, and the remaining seven hectares is in Sekambing village, Bontang.

The Sekambing land will be turned into a city forest as part of Bontang's plan to turn the area into an urban development zone.

The regreening program will be launched in Bontang on Aug. 11 in the presence of Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia R.J. Trefferf and East Kalimantan Governor Suwarna AF. --Antara