As many as 10 Indonesian companies are to team up with a United States-based construction service provider, Sandi Group Global Holdings, to do business in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
s many as 10 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companies are to team up with a United States-based construction service provider, Sandi Group (TSG) Global Holdings to build infrastructure and provide aircraft maintenance in in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on business cooperation signed in Jakarta on Wednesday, the 10 Indonesian companies would be involved in building such facilities as a solar power plant and railroads, as well as selling aircraft and providing aviation maintenance in the Central African country, while the Sandi Group is to finance the projects.
“We are working with five SOEs to expand their businesses inside Indonesia and to take them outside of Indonesia, specifically to the Democratic Republic of Congo,” TSG Global Holdings chief executive officer Rubar Sandi told reporters at a press conference following the signing of the MoU documents.
The partnership is to involve five SOEs, namely construction company PT Wijaya Karya (Wika), industrial electronics company PT Len Industrial, rolling stock manufacturer PT Industri Kereta Api (INKA), airline PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines (MNA) and aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI). It would also involve five private companies, namely PT Widodo Makmur Unggas, PT Naga Putih Nusantara, PT Nabati Agro Sumatera, PT Langgeng Makmur Perkasa (LMP) Property & Constructions and PT Aero Bahteranusa Palapa.
In the program, Wika and Len would partner with Sunplus S.A.R.L to build a 200-megawatt (MW) electric solar panel farm in the DRC where Wika would handle the engineering, procurement and construction of the project. The program would be the first phase of a plan to build a 1,000-MW solar power plant in the country.
Len’s director of operations, Linus Andor Mulana Sijabat, said that his company saw no need to develop new types of solar panels for the project because of the similar geographical conditions between DR Congo and Indonesia. “Our solar panels are already compatible as the irradiance was similar to the Eastern Indonesia region,” he added.
INKA would develop a 1,700-kilometer railway and provide 176 locomotives engine and the necessary freight cars to the country for goods transportation. It would also build a 62-km light rail transit system for public transportation around the capital city Kinshasa.
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