JAKARTA - salt Companies from Australia, Cheetham Salt Ltd (Cheetham), invest to build ponds and salt processing plant in Nagekeo, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) at this year worth 300 billion.
Deputy Minister of Industry (Wamenperin) Alex SW Retraubun said the government is inviting foreign investors to work on the national salt industry. At this time, he said, investors in Australia, Cheetam Salt, has conducted feasibility studies for investment plans salt at NTT.
"They are interested in that location because of its environmental characteristics similar to the one they have in Australia. The plan they will invest here amounted to 300 billion. The possibility that current production could begin late next year," Alex said in Jakarta on Monday (18/10 / 2010).
Minister of Industry (Minister) MS Hidayat said previously, Cheetam Salt plans to prepare the land for salt land area of 2100 hectares (ha) in the province. The plan, Cheetam Salt will be holding local government Nagekeo NTT to realize that investment.
With a land area, said Hidayat, expected to be able to produce about 100 tons of salt per ha per season and will be able to increase national production of 200,000 tons of salt. At this time, Indonesia has a land area of about 20,000 ha of productive salt with an average production capacity 1.1 million tons - 1.4 million tons per year. And cooperation, he added, will be able to provide employment for 2,000 people.
CEO Andrew Cheetham Salt Speed said the cooperation is still in its early stages, with the first activity in the form of economic and technical studies are expected to complete in mid 2011. In the early stages, he said, Cheetam Salt will build a pond before determining to make the processing plant. "For a while we just get up the pond alone," he said.
Updated: 10/18/2010 4:43 AM
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