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PLAN TO BUY 1,000 SHIPS FROM KOREA NEEDS COORDINATION: MINISTER
PLAN TO BUY 1,000 SHIPS FROM KOREA NEEDS COORDINATION: MINISTER
Jakarta, June 13 (ANTARA) - The government hopes that PT Indonesia Ferry (IF)'s plan to purchase 1,000 ships worth two billion dollars from South Korea must be coordinated among the stakeholders, a minister said.
"There must be a coordination among the stakeholders. I myself have no knowledge about the plan," Transportation Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal said here on Friday.
Djamal made the remarks in response to a plan by State-owned Enterprises (BUMN) Minister Sofyan Djalil to convene the IF management over its plan to purchase the 1,000 ships from South Korea.
"We will ask for a report from the management of IF about the matter, Djalil said in connection with the signing of an agreement between IF president director Bambang S and a representative of the South Korean company last week.
Minister Djamal said that coordination in the purchase of the ships needed to include the ministry of transportation, the domestic dockyard industry, the ministry of industry and others. "After all, the number of ships to be ordered is so large," the minister said.
But he believed that PT IF, as the operator of the inland waterway transport service and as a state-owned company, must have secured a license from the Ministry of State Enterprises (BUMN).
Achmad Sukri, a member of the board of commissioners of PT IF, who is also secretary of the land transport directorate general, said that the plan to purchase the ships from South Korea was against the spirit of Presidential Instruction No. 5/ 2005 on the Empowerment of the National Shipping Industry.
"The ordering of ships in South Korea, especially if they are built overseas, is clearly against presidential instruction no. 5 / 2995 on the empowerment of the national ship industry, in which dockbuilding yards are included," Sukri said.
The project among others included the use of a number of shipbuilding yards in countries grouped in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), including the procurement of 1,000 ferries in the coming five years.
Jakarta, June 13 (ANTARA) - The government hopes that PT Indonesia Ferry (IF)'s plan to purchase 1,000 ships worth two billion dollars from South Korea must be coordinated among the stakeholders, a minister said.
"There must be a coordination among the stakeholders. I myself have no knowledge about the plan," Transportation Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal said here on Friday.
Djamal made the remarks in response to a plan by State-owned Enterprises (BUMN) Minister Sofyan Djalil to convene the IF management over its plan to purchase the 1,000 ships from South Korea.
"We will ask for a report from the management of IF about the matter, Djalil said in connection with the signing of an agreement between IF president director Bambang S and a representative of the South Korean company last week.
Minister Djamal said that coordination in the purchase of the ships needed to include the ministry of transportation, the domestic dockyard industry, the ministry of industry and others. "After all, the number of ships to be ordered is so large," the minister said.
But he believed that PT IF, as the operator of the inland waterway transport service and as a state-owned company, must have secured a license from the Ministry of State Enterprises (BUMN).
Achmad Sukri, a member of the board of commissioners of PT IF, who is also secretary of the land transport directorate general, said that the plan to purchase the ships from South Korea was against the spirit of Presidential Instruction No. 5/ 2005 on the Empowerment of the National Shipping Industry.
"The ordering of ships in South Korea, especially if they are built overseas, is clearly against presidential instruction no. 5 / 2995 on the empowerment of the national ship industry, in which dockbuilding yards are included," Sukri said.
The project among others included the use of a number of shipbuilding yards in countries grouped in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), including the procurement of 1,000 ferries in the coming five years.
