KEM provides training program to anticipate post-mining period
Tuesday, September 12 2000 - 03:30 AM WIB
Gold mining company PT Kelian Equatorial Mining (KEM) in East Kalimantan has provided various training programs for its employees to allow them to have other jobs or change profession once the mining operation ends in 2003.
The local Suara Kaltim daily also quoted KEM president John Vale as saying that the company had also been providing various programs for the villages and the people living near the mining site.
Vale was speaking in a recent gathering with the East Kalimantan Governor, local military commander and police chief, and other senior officials of the province.
Vale said that since 1989, the company has launched various programs to improve the infrastructure of several villages and to provide training programs for the local people to help improve their skills.
He said that KEM expected the local people to benefit from the program even though KEM's operation has ended.
KEM is expected to end its operation in 2003, but the company would continue to keep an eye on the local environment of the post-mining period until 2007.
Elsewhere, Vale said that the company together with other related government institutions and local informal leaders were in the process of verifying some 5,300 compensation claims including for land acquired by the company. He said that the company had started paying some of the claims since February this year.
He also said that the company planned to put asphalt on the company's access road to resolve the dust problem. (*)