A Saga of Cement
Monday, January 8, 2001
In Padang they have always mourned the life and circumstances of PT Semen Padang, a home-grown cement firm the city-dwellers can spy from afar. In 1995 it was merged into might PT Semen Gresik Tbk, a state-owned cement firm based in distant East Java. Since then the fiercely proud Minangkabau people of West Sumatra feel they have never got a great deal out of it, apart maybe from the odd job.
Soon they will have reason to celebrate. In Jakarta l
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