Tuban in the Cepu Block
The central government and the Tuban administration are in dispute over the laying of a pipeline that will bring oil out from the Cepu Block, Bojonegoro, and the Tuban Block. Targeted oil production of as much as 960,000 barrels per day is threatened. Lobbying by several state institutions was able to crush the Tuban Regent and on Thursday this week the license will be issued.
June 9, 2009
TWO army personnel from the Semanding Military Command stood by the side of the road in the hamlet of Wonorejo (Gesing village, Semanding district, Tuban), East Java, on Wednesday last week. They were guarding workers and technicians who were laying iron pipes using heavy equipment. Not far from these two could be seen several personnel from the Tuban Area Police, also on guard. And it wasn’t just in Gesing, as several security personnel were a
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