Jakarta Globe, Novianti Setuningsih, Dec 08, 2014
Jakarta.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla in a speech for the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce
and Industry (Kadin) on Monday urged the nation’s entrepreneurs to stop ruining
the environment and pay their taxes.
“In the
wood-trading era, in the 1960s and 70s, a lot of trees were cut down, causing
floods that we still have to deal with until now,” said Kalla, himself a
successful businessman.
The vice
president also told the hundreds of entrepreneurs attending Kadin’s national
leadership meeting that the government was going to improve its natural
resources management.
“The mining
sector was profiting while our environment was wasted. The [new] regulation is
made to protect our natural resources,” Kalla said.
He added
that business should also pay all taxes and royalties they owe, and that owners
could be banned from traveling abroad if they fail to do so.
Kalla
explained that the government needed the income from taxes and royalties to
help fund its program to improve the nation’s infrastructure.
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