New men at Semen Padang

New men at Semen Padang

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned cement manufacturer PT Semen Padang
has a new president: A. Ikhdan Nizar, who was formerly chief of
the company's general affairs department.

Nizar was formally installed at the Semen Padang office in
Jakarta on Friday, replacing Abubakar, Antara reported.

The ceremony, witnessed by a number of shareholders, also saw
the appointment of Brig. Gen. (ret.) Safroedin Bahar, formerly
assistant to the minister/state secretary, as president
commissioner. Safroedin replaced Effendi Sudarsono.

Abubakar and Syahrul Ujud, a former Padang mayor and currently
assistant to the coordinating minister for people's welfare and
poverty eradication, were also installed as members of the board
of commissioners, the news agency said.

Semen Padang runs a plant near the West Sumatra town of Padang
with an annual capacity of 3.5 million metric tons and sells to
domestic as well as foreign markets including Bangladesh, Taiwan,
Japan, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea and the Republic of Maldives.
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