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| Widjajono Partowidagdo, center, in this file photo. (Antara) |
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Indonesia’s
Deputy Energy and Minerals Minister Widjajono Partowidagdo has reportedly died
after suffering a suspected heart attack climbing Mount Tambora in West Nusa
Tenggara on Saturday.
Officials
at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry (ESDM) were reluctant to comment
on Widjajono’s condition, saying that reports of the incident were still
unclear from the eastern province.
MetroTV,
however, were reporting that the minister had passed away.
Disaster
Mitigation Agency official Surono said Widjajono earlier said the minister was
in a stable condition and was being evacuated to the nearest hospital.
“The
evacuation route is close to the main street and they’re en route to hospital. Widjajono’s
still recovering from shock,” he said.
The deputy
minister was a key policy maker in the government’s drive to tighten mining
regulations.
Widjajono
Partowidagdo is a central player in a government decision expected soon on
whether to impose a 25 percent tax on mining exports this year and a 50 percent
tax in 2013.
A series of
mining and minerals regulations announced this year have rattled investors in
the country, which is the world’s top exporter of thermal coal and refined tin
and has a big minerals sector.
The
regulations include a plan under which some foreign mining companies must
divest 51 percent within 10 years and a proposed ban on the export of some
unprocessed metals by 2014.
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