Although Opposed, Rembang Cement Factory is Nearly Completed

Jakarta, Aktual.com – Plant Construction of Cement Gresik (Indonesia Sement Group) in Rembang, Central Java, has now reached 94.4 percent, or nearly 100 percent of the target completion later this year.

“Progress has been 94.4 per cent of the planned 97 percent. However, Q4 (fourth quarter) we are ready to do a test,” said Head of Engineering and Construction PT CemenT Gresik Heru Indra Vitello in Rembang, Monday (22/8).

According to him, the construction of the cement plant with production capacity of 3 million tons / year it has been running for 31 months and conceptualized with the most modern technology from all over Indonesia Cement factory.

He explained that the 100 percent design was designed by experts from Indonesia with the use of equipment that the majority of local products, which amounted to 80.12 percent, while 19.88 percent of imported products only.

“For some of the equipment had to be imported, ie which has a large diameter with a high degree of precision. Among these ‘kiln girt gear’, ‘kiln tire’, and ‘raw mill table’,” he said.

However, he said, for the material “steel” wholly the result of local manufacturing, such as the structure of the “mix storage”, “central storage”, “packing building”, “clay storage”, until the construction of “cemen mill”.

Similarly, the absorption of labor, he added, the involvement of citizens living in the ring I, the location of the nearest settlement with a very large plant with a total of 1,079 people.

At least five villages in the ring I Semen Gresik in Rembang, namely in the village Tegaldowo, Timbrangan, Pasucen, and Kajar (Subdistrict Gunem), then the Village Kadiwono.

Meanwhile, Roy Budi Setiawan as Project Control Manager for the construction of a cement plant in Rembang add labor absorption is also great after the operation of the plant.

“We will empower people around to different positions, such as truck driver material to 500 people, ‘driver’ Semen Gresik 15 people, security personnel of 120 people, and so forth,” he said.

Results of mapping labor requirements, he said, at least a total of 825 workers from a local residents will be empowered to operate Cement Gresik in the Rembang.

Not to mention, he added, “multiplier effect” of the existence of the plant will for locals, as opportunities opened boarding, canteens, employment of associates, and so forth,” he said.

What is clear, he said, he is optimistic that the construction of a cement plant red plates which require an investment of approximately Rp4,45 trillion soon be completed and ready for testing in September 2016.

However, Former Chairman of the Institute of Rural Community Empowerment (LPMD) Tegaldowo Dwi Joko Supriyanto, admits there are a number of people, including people living in the ring I were less agree with the establishment of the factory so that the action of rejection to the State Palace, Jakarta.

“If I may say, of the 10 people to take action to Jakarta was not all the residents here. Its residents of Tegaldowo only two people, and four people from the village Timbrangan,” he said.

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