"We will set up a team of ministers and governor to monitor the mining activities in Babel," Vice President Boediono said aboard of a plane that flew him from Pangkalpinang (Babel) to Jakarta on Saturday.
The vice president said that the team would be chaired by the forestry minister and to be assisted by the energy and mineral resources minister and the environment minister.
He said that it was not impossible that other ministers would also be asked to help the team in handling the tin mining activities that had caused serious damage to the environment in the province of Bangka Belitung.
He said that the team was expected to provide strategic steps that could be carried out in the coming several years.
"We had a meeting today and agreed that the central government would assist the governor to sharpen plans to handle the mining activities that caused damage to the environment," the vice president said referring to his meeting with the Babel regional government officials on Saturday.
(T.A014/P003)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
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