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The government is putting out efforts to create a contract between the State Electricity Company (PLN) with electric generator investors from Qatar and Bahrain.

“We’re working hard in order to reach agreement and contract with PLN so that construction can begin,” the President’s special envoy for the Middle East, Alwi Shihab, told reporters in the Vice President’s Office, Monday (30/4).


The investors from Qatar and Bahrain, he said, have already signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a national private company to build a 150 megawatt electricity generator in Riau with an investment of US$600 million. Investment was also aimed at building a electricity generator in Kalimantan for the amount of US$700 million.

Alwi said if construction by the investment from Qatar and Bahrain goes smoothly, there will be many other Middle Eastern investors who join. He cited property companies from the United Arab Emirates and Dubai World have already been offered to build tourism destinations in Klungkung and Nusa Penida, Bali.

Dubai World will also build the highest skyscraper building in Indonesia. Alwi said it is planned that the building will be built in the middle of Jakarta, between Kuningan and Jalan Sudirman.

Construction, he said, needs land with a minimum width of five hectares. “We’re looking for the land, either from Jakarta (provincial government) or others,” he said.

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