REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Government threatens to revoke export license of Freeport McMoran Indonesia if the company does not build smelter soon. Government also rejected the company's plan of building Smelter in Gresik, East Java.
"They do not oblige with our demand for equality of development," Director General of Mineral and Coal, Sukhyar, said on Tuesday, December 23. Government sees that Gresik already has sufficient infrastructure.
Government expects Freeport to build smelter in Papua in order to boost development in the area. "I don't want to know. Freeport must build smelter in Papua," he said.
Freeport has asked government a time to prepare. Yet, government did not allow.
Meanwhile, President Director of Freeport Indonesia, Rozik Soetjipto, said that the company planned to build smelter in Gresik. "We have reached basic engineering stage," he said.
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