The Jakarta Post, March 10, 2007
Maluku village to make biofuel
AMBON, Maluku: Hundreds of families in Oma village in Central Maluku regency have
provided 1,070 hectares of land to be managed by a Korean investor to grow Jatropha
curcas plants for biodiesel.
The chairman of Lefeber Management Limited (LML), Choi Seung In, said his
company would develop a special program in Oma. "We will apply a unique
technology to produce electricity," said Choi. The company has signed an agreement
with the Oma village administration worth millions of dollars. Oma residents will tend
to the plant seedlings. Choi said the plants would then go through a distillation
process, and the end product would be used to run a power generating system. LML's
business partner from the Netherlands, Jack de Fretes, said the project was designed
to work with the prevailing conditions in Maluku in terms of electricity, fuel supplies,
unemployment, health, environmental hygiene and education. Fretes, a Dutch citizen
of Maluku ancestry, said LML will provide residents with training on how to produce
biodiesel and use it to generate electricity.
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