Lanna Harita faces legal suit
Saturday, November 17 2001 - 01:01 AM WIB
A group of 22 villagers in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, has filed a legal suit against coal mining firm PT Lanna Harita Indonesia (LHI) over land dispute, the local Kaltim Post daily reported.
The paper said that the lawsuit was filed at the Samarinda Court on Thursday.
The paper said that the villagers demanded LHI to pay around Rp 1.8 billion in compensation.
The 22 villagers, who are grouped in local cooperatives, have demanded LHI to stop mining activity in a 60 ha plot of land located in the Sungai Siring area in Samarinda on grounds that the local district authority had granted them the license to exploit the land. But LHI insisted that the plot of land was part of its mining sites.
LHI is 55 percent controlled by Thailand?s Lanna Lignite, 35 percent Harita Group, and the remaining 10 percent Pan United of Singapore.(*)