State firm executives sworn in

State firm executives sworn in

JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Industry and Trade Tunky Ariwibowo appointed executives and commissioners of 18 state-owned companies overseen by his ministry in a ceremony here yesterday.

The officials installed yesterday consisted of four chief executives, 12 directors, 12 chief commissioners and 33 commissioners.

The chief executives were Zainal Soedjais of urea company PT Asean Aceh Fertilizer, Urip Timuryono of cement firm PT Semen Gresik, Suparnadi P. of paper company PT Kertas Kraft Aceh and Yustian Ismail of retail company PT Sarinah.

Djumharto and Maman Sukiman were installed as directors of Asean Aceh Fertilizer, Ateng Djaelani as director of PT Kawasan Industri Cilacap, an industrial company operator in Cilacap, Central Java, while Abdullah Hasan, Jailani Anwar, Hasan and Soekarno were appointed as directors of Semen Gresik.

The newly installed directors also included Sutamat and Rusdi Tambunan of Kertas Kraft Aceh, Eko Supaady of PT Dharma Niaga, as well as Boediharto and Minhad Moeftie of Sarinah.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade currently oversees 27 state industry-related companies and eight trade-related firms.

Tunky said at yesterday's inaugural ceremony that all state companies have to improve management professionalism to face competition with foreign firms.

The benchmark of professionalism is the certification of quality standardization by the International Standard Organization (ISO), he said.

He urged the state companies under his ministry to seek ISO 9000 certification within the next two years. (kod)