Inco offers partnerships

JAKARTA (JP): The publicly-listed nickel mining company PT Inco is offering partnerships worth Rp 500 billion to local companies in South Sulawesi.

"But we will select only capable companies to join partnerships through open tenders," Inco's president, Rumengan Musu, said here Thursday.

Speaking to reporters at the company's meeting with the South Sulawesi chapter of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, he said his company would set up partnerships for a number of development projects, including construction of the Balambano dam for power generation in South Sulawesi.

According to Rumengan, Inco has established partnerships worth tens of billions of rupiah with 128 local companies. (34/13)