Jakarta, Aktual.com – Discourse relaxation raw mineral exports that had exhaled by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Sudirman Said reap criticism by many parties. In fact, the Minister Sudirman said correct his statement by saying that the revision of the Mining Law instead to strengthen the industrial and coal.

Chairman of the Working Committee (Panja) Mining Commission VII of the House of Representatives, Shaykh al-Islam Ali insists that Parliament remains consistent with the policy of the downstream and coal. Shaykh instead urged the Minister to help accelerate the development of smelter.

“We recommend that the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources find a solution to the stalled smelter to be completed and can absorb the mines. Downstream must keep moving. Smelter should be so, the government must take the initiative, “said Shaykh in the information received in Jakarta, Thursday (3/3).

The PKB politicians also criticized the policy of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources which tend to defend Freeport. According to Shaykh al, there are 72 smelter to be built until 2017. The majority of our progress is still below 50 percent, including a smelter owned by PT Freeport Indonesia.

“Do not just find a solution to Freeport alone, out there are tens of thousands of people out of work and hundreds of trillions of money is not spinning due to not completing the construction of the smelter,” said activist GP Anshor.

Shaykh ask the Minister of Energy to give strict punishment to the mining companies that have not yet built a smelter.

“Minister gave strict sanction to the mining company that has not been smelter. Instead of giving relief to a particular company is not clear progress,” he said.

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