USING an overhead projector, Musyafirin, head of the West Sumbawa Revenue Office, gave a presentation in slide after slide of a plan by the West Sumbawa district government to acquire a stake in gold mining company Newmont Nusa Tenggara (NNT) operating in the area. The presentation took place at the headquarters of the Directorate General of Minerals and Coal in Jakarta on Thursday last week.

Led by district chief Zulkifi Muhadi, a delegation f