JAKARTA: A senior Indonesian cabinet minister on Tuesday (Mar 14) warned companies operating in a nickel-rich region to comply with the country's environmental regulations or risk getting their operating licenses revoked. Indonesia aims to use its vast nickel reserves to become a
JAKARTA: A senior Indonesian cabinet minister on Tuesday warned companies operating in a nickel-rich region to comply with the country's environmental regulations or risk getting their operating licenses revoked.regional manufacturing hub for electric vehicle batteries
, signing more than a dozen deals worth US$15 billion with global manufacturers including Hyundai, LG and Foxconn in just three years. But environmentalists have cautioned against realizing those ambitions through rapacious mining and mineral processing, which they say will irreversibly damage the environment, as evidenced in other parts of the resource-rich country.
"You have to comply with regulations set up by the Indonesian government. If you can't, I will shut down your industry within two months," said Luhut Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs. "Maybe it would reduce some of our revenue, but then don't want to compensate for that with a bad environment," he told an economic forum in Jakarta.
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