"The president will go to Asahan on Tuesday, and PLN is building a power plant in Asahan but the meeting had nothing to do with the capping issue," Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta Rajasa said on Monday.
Hatta added that on the capping issue, he had asked energy and mineral resources (ESDM) minister and state minister for state enterprises (BUMN) to avoid polemics and to have the issue settled.
"There has been no revocation. I have asked ESDM and BUMN ministers at a coordination meeting to overcome the issue. To overcome the issue means not to make a polemic, and the discussion between the president and PLN chief was not about the capping issue," Hatta said.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono summoned state electricity company PT PLN President Director Dahlan Iskan to the State Palace on Monday morning for a closed door meeting.
Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said that at the brief meeting with President Yudhoyono, Dahlan only reported about the progress of PT PLN.
"I cannot give a further explanation, but the PLN president director only reported about the progress of the state electricity company," Julian said.
After receiving the PLN president director, President Yudhoyono chaired a limited cabinet meeting to discuss the alleged tax fraud case of former tax official Gayus Tambunan.
Gayus is believed to be involved in a tax fraud mafia syndicate. He has continued making headlines after it was discovered he had made overseas trips while he was officially supposed to be in a detention cell.
Then at 8 on Monday evening the president is scheduled to have a meeting with interfaith leaders at the State Palace.
Julian said the interfaith meeting would be held in response to a request from Muhammadiah Central Executive Chairman Din Syamsuddin to meet with the head of state.
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