Toyo buys IKPT stake

epa00985214 A victim of the Lapindo mudflow disaster shouts slogans during a rally outside the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, 17 April 2007, demanding compensation for their houses damaged in the disaster. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would take action against PT Lapindo Brantas Inc., the operator of the gas field blamed for the cause of the mudflow, if it failed to compensate the mudflow victims. The National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) has estimated that the losses caused by the mudflow from Lapindo Brantas gas operations in Sidoarjo, East Java, in the past nine months had reached Rp27.4 trillion, consisting of Rp11.0 trillion in direct and Rp16.4 trillion in indirect losses.  EPA/MAST IRHAM

Staking a claim: Toyo has bought a 47% interest in Indonesian company IKPT

Japan’s Toyo Engineering has picked up a 47% stake in Indonesia’s Inti Karya Persada Teknik, (IKPT) amid an increase in tendering activity for infrastructure and oil and gas projects in the south-east Asian country.





In a press statement released on Tuesday, Toyo said IKPT was valued at 5.5 billion rupiah ($600,000) but did not unveil the acquisition cost for its 47% interest in the Indonesian outfit.



Toyo is eyeing a share of accelerated infrastructure development in Indonesia. The economy of the world’s fourth-most populated country was growing at over 6% in 2010 and 2011 and remained relatively unscathed by the recent global slowdown, the Japanese company said.



Tendering activity in Indonesia’s upstream oil and gas sector is ramping up, with mega-projects like Chevron’s…

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