ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – The fire and explosion at the nickel smelter of the Chinese company, PT. Indonesia Tsingshan Stanless Steel (ITSS) in Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP), Central Sulawesi is still a concern among parliamentarians.
Member of Commission VII DPR RI, Mulyanto, asked the audit team from the Ministry of Manpower and the Ministry of Industry to immediately announce the results of the examination of the ITSS smelter fire incident, following the upgrade of the inspection status from inquiry to investigation.
“The investigation process at the Police and the Ministry must run simultaneously, so that the true cause of the accident which claimed 21 lives and 30 injured victims who are currently being treated in hospital is known,” said Mulyanto in a written statement in Jakarta, quoted Friday, January 5 2024.
He urged the Government to announce and make an official report regarding the operational feasibility of the PT smelter. ITSS.
“If it turns out that PT. “ITSS does not meet the standards, so the government must have the courage to revoke the Chinese company’s operational permit,” he stressed.
“The government must audit its own smelter technology and system, to find out whether the smelter used at PT. ITSS is reliable for work safety and the environment. It is feared that the problem is not only in the implementation of SOPs but also in the reliability of the smelter,” he explained.
According to this politician from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) faction, the government has an obligation to protect people who work in foreign companies. Therefore, the Government must ensure that the Chinese company’s nickel smelter is suitable and reliable to use.
Mulyanto added that the government should not allow its people to become victims of testing the suitability of foreign companies’ work equipment. On the contrary, the Government must encourage the process of technology transfer from foreign companies to domestic companies, so that the management of national natural resources in the future does not depend on the capabilities of foreign companies.
“What is happening now is actually the opposite. It is as if our people are being used as guinea pigs to test the reliability of the working equipment of foreign companies that invest here. This is clearly detrimental and dangerous. The government must act,” he concluded. (AT Network)
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