Fatoele'oe told to build plant

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)