Indonesia's state-owned trading firm PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia plans to spend 1.3 trillion rupiah ($139.1 million) to build a sugar mill in West Java, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Basins Indonesia quoted Ramie Prihandana, the director of RNI, as saying the planned sugar mill would be built in Gamut, about 200 km (124 miles) south-east of the capital Jakarta, and have a capacity to process 5,000 tonnes of cane per day. "It is in the feasibility study phase, hopefully that will be finished in 2007. Then hopefully next year we will start (building the mill)," Ramie said.
Company officials could not immediately be contacted. Under the plan, the mill will be integrated with a sugar cane plantation and expect to start operations in 2009.