President asks businessmen to help improve local welfare

"I would like to advise owners of industrial enterprises, including gas and oil businessmen, in Indonesia that they should maintain good relations with the local people," the president said during a teleconference here on Tuesday with a number of workers in Ujung Pangkah-Gresik (Hess) and Lapangan Oyong-Sampang oil fields in East Java.

Before holding the teleconference, the president opened an Asia-Pacific Gas and Oil Exhibition and Conference organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He also commissioned the production facilities of the Lapangan Ujung Pangkah-Gresik and Lapangan Oyong-Sampang (Santos) oil fields.