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State firm to develop salt field in NTT
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A salt farmer cultivates his field in Santing village, Losarang district, Indramayu regency, West Java, in May. (Antara/Dedhez Anggara)
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tate-owned salt producer PT Garam will develop a salt field on 3,720 hectares of idle land owned by private company PT Panggung Guna Ganda Semesta (PGGS) in East Nusa Tenggara’s (NTT) provincial capital of Kupang, an official has said.
“PT Pangung and PT Garam are negotiating a business-to-business arrangement,” said the Agrarian and Spatial Planning Ministry’s spatial use and land control director general, Budi Situmorang, in Jakarta on Monday.
The land is controlled by PT PGGS with a certificate for the right to cultivate land issued in 1992.
Earlier this month, the ministry issued an order to PT Pangung to find a partner to turn the property into a salt production facility.
PT Panggung claims that the company could not develop the land because it was illegally occupied by people.
Budi said the development of the land into a salt field was expected to provide the people, formerly citizens of East Timor, with jobs.
Previously, Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said the government planned to develop salt fields on 5,000 hectares of idle land in the province in an effort to address the scarcity of the commodity.
The new salt fields will use technology offered by the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology.
The technology is said to shorten the production process from 15 days to only four days. (dis/bbn)
