Wahyu Muryadi Counters Complaint
IN a complaint letter by the Agriculture Ministry published in Tempo’s September 16-22, 2019, edition, it says that I initiated and facilitated – including providing helicopters - the inaugural construction of sugar factory PT Pratama Nusantara Sakti (PNS) in the Ogan Komering Ilir sub-regency in South Sumatra on May 22, 2017.
Tempo
September 23, 2019
The phrase “initiated and facilitated” is completely inaccurate. I merely introduced my old friend Yohanes Hardian Widjanarko, the company’s commissioner, to Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman. PT PNS was developing a project to increase national sugar production, and thus deserves the government’s support. It is the first sugar plantation in Indonesia which makes incremental use of swamp land in an area of 30,000 hectare
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