Fatoele'oe told to build plant

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara (JP): The East Nusa Tenggara administration told PT Semen Fatoele'oe Permai yesterday to start building its planned cement plant with an annual capacity of one million tons.

East Nusa Tenggara Vice Governor Pieter Alexander Tallo said his office had not received a feasibility study or any progress reports from Fatoele'oe.

"We really hope that the investor will materialize its planned cement plant development... The administration will not hinder, but help the development," Pieter told The Jakarta Post here yesterday.

Fatoele'oe plans to develop its plant on a 600-hectare plot here.

Fatoele'oe operation director Habel Junus Alexander Toepitoe said earlier that his company had secured a license from the Ministry of Mines and Energy but was waiting for an operations license from the provincial administration.

He said that, as soon as the provincial license was issued, his company would start building the plant. (rid/yac)