Mining company donates gold

Mining company donates gold

JAKARTA (JP): After a two year delay, gold mining company PT
Kelian Equatorial Mining (KEM) in Kutai regency has donated five
kilograms of gold bar for use in the East Kalimantan
administration's poverty alleviation programs.

KEM president John Miller told Antara in Samarinda on Monday
that his company had to delay the donation, promised in 1997, due
to internal problems.

The company pledged in 1997 to support the national poverty
alleviation program by donating 5 kg of gold for helping
impoverished people.

The East Kalimantan provincial administration has to date
raised Rp 1.3 billion (US$185,700) in donations from local people
and businesses for financing poverty alleviation programs in the
province. (01)