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EMAAR REMAINS COMMITTED TO INVESTING IN W NUSA TENGGARA
Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, March 19 (ANTARA) - Emaar Properties, a giant company from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), remains committed to its plan to invest in West Nusa Tenggara province, a local legislator said.
"I just made a call to the Emaar director in Jakarta (Indonesia's capital city) in connection with rumors that Emaar might cancel its plan to invest in West Nusa Tenggara," the vice chairman of the West Nusa Tenggara Provincial Legislative Council's Commission I, Abdul Hadi Faishal, told Antara here Thursday.
According to Hadi, it now depended on the government which was expected to convince Emaar to go ahead with its investment plan in West Nusa Tenggara.
As part of the effort to convince Emaar, the government was expected to meet several requirements such as widening roads leading to the airport, guaranteeing clean water and electricity supplies, he said.
Meanwhile, the West Nusatenggara Provincial Legislative Council has approved a bylaw on the handing over of land previously belonging to the Lombok Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) to Emaar which would fully manage it.
"We continue to try to prevent Emaar from leaving West Nusa Tenggara. Otherwise the province will lose hundreds of billions of rupiah (Indonesian unit) and 25,000 prospective workers would lose job opportunities," he said.
Emaar had planned to use the land previously belonging to LTDC in Lombok Tengah district to build properties and facilities in conjunction with the construction of Lombok's international airport in anticipation of an increase in the number of tourists arriving in the province.
"Emaar is expected to call on tourists, especially those from the Middle East, to visit West Nusa Tenggara as the province has a lot of religious tourist sites," he said, adding that Emaar was also expected to employ local workers when its projects had become operational. .
"We do not want the people of West Nusa Tenggara' to remain onlookers or guests in their own region," he said.
Emaar would invest in the construction of a star-rated hotel on 500 hectares of land and thereby create jobs for thousands of local people.
"Employment of local workers would be very important for the government as it would be an effort to cope with unemployment in West Nusa Tenggara," he said.
West Nusa Tenggara Governor KH. M. Zaenul Majdi said the shares to be received by the province from the central government for the business of the ex-LTDC land was worth Rp195.16 billion.
"I just made a call to the Emaar director in Jakarta (Indonesia's capital city) in connection with rumors that Emaar might cancel its plan to invest in West Nusa Tenggara," the vice chairman of the West Nusa Tenggara Provincial Legislative Council's Commission I, Abdul Hadi Faishal, told Antara here Thursday.
According to Hadi, it now depended on the government which was expected to convince Emaar to go ahead with its investment plan in West Nusa Tenggara.
As part of the effort to convince Emaar, the government was expected to meet several requirements such as widening roads leading to the airport, guaranteeing clean water and electricity supplies, he said.
Meanwhile, the West Nusatenggara Provincial Legislative Council has approved a bylaw on the handing over of land previously belonging to the Lombok Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) to Emaar which would fully manage it.
"We continue to try to prevent Emaar from leaving West Nusa Tenggara. Otherwise the province will lose hundreds of billions of rupiah (Indonesian unit) and 25,000 prospective workers would lose job opportunities," he said.
Emaar had planned to use the land previously belonging to LTDC in Lombok Tengah district to build properties and facilities in conjunction with the construction of Lombok's international airport in anticipation of an increase in the number of tourists arriving in the province.
"Emaar is expected to call on tourists, especially those from the Middle East, to visit West Nusa Tenggara as the province has a lot of religious tourist sites," he said, adding that Emaar was also expected to employ local workers when its projects had become operational. .
"We do not want the people of West Nusa Tenggara' to remain onlookers or guests in their own region," he said.
Emaar would invest in the construction of a star-rated hotel on 500 hectares of land and thereby create jobs for thousands of local people.
"Employment of local workers would be very important for the government as it would be an effort to cope with unemployment in West Nusa Tenggara," he said.
West Nusa Tenggara Governor KH. M. Zaenul Majdi said the shares to be received by the province from the central government for the business of the ex-LTDC land was worth Rp195.16 billion.
