Land permits revoked

JAKARTA (JP): The East Kalimantan office of the National Land Agency has thus far this year revoked location permits for 37 investors in the province due to their failure to accomplish their projects as scheduled, an executive said.

The head of the office, H. Soehadi, was quoted by Antara as saying in the province's capital of Samarinda on Saturday that besides revoking the location permits of those investors, the agency had also warned 14 other investors that they might lose location permits if they failed to perform their working plans as scheduled.

He said that the agency, in cooperation with the local plantation office, will assign a team to monitor investors' activities in constructing their projects due to a report that many of them did not perform any construction activities.(31)