Indonesia and Russia to build US$22bil refinery in East Java among other projects


Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shake hands with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo after press conference at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 30, 2022. - AFP

JAKARTA, July 2 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia and Russia are set to work together on several projects, even as the West is isolating Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

Indonesian state-owned oil company Pertamina and Russia's Rosneft Oil Company are going ahead with their project to build a refinery in the Indonesian province of East Java to produce fuel and raw materials for the petrochemical industry, a senior Indonesian government official told The Straits Times on Friday (July 1)

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