Jambi (ANTARA News) - Jambi Governor H Zulkifli Nurdin said that a plan to build a hydropower plant (PLTA) in Kerinci District, Jambi, was not a lie as work to set up a 180-MW capacity PLTA in the district was officially begun earlier this week.
The governor said he had laid the first corner-stone of the project in Muaraimat village, Batang Merangin sub district, Kerinci district, on Friday.
He said PT Bukaka Teknik Utama which was taking over the project from a Norwegian investor was sending heavy equipment to the location to begin building the plant this week.
The failure of the Norwegian investor (PT Statcraf SF) to realize the hydropower plant had caused a number of community leaders to criticize the planned project, saying it was a "public lie."
The governor said the idea to develop the hydropower plant came in 1983 when JICA of Japan made a study of the possibility to build such a plant in areas around the Kerinci Sablat National Park (TNKS).
The same study was later resumed by the World Bank in 1985. In 1999, the Jambi regional government invited the Norwegian investor and signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build the plant.
The PLTA which would be developed based on the agreement with the Norwegian company would have a design capacity of 250 MW.
But the company failed to realize the plan in connection with the political conditions which was developing in the country at that time
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