Press Release

To support the program of the Ministry of SOEs in commemoration of the 71st anniversary of Independence of Republic of Indonesia, namely  “SOE Present for The Country”, PT Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk. (PTBA) held events Students Know Nusantara (SMN) 2016.

A total of 20 students selected as participants SMN from 20 senior high school in North Maluku Province, accompanied by three teacher assistant and one officials of education department of North Maluku Province, arrived in PTBA, exactly in Base Camp Bukit Asam Tanjung Enim, South Sumatra, on Monday, August 8, 2016.

In an event familiarity evening at Recreation Hall Bukit Asam, General Manager of Tanjung Enim Mining Unit (UPET) PTBA Suhedi expressed happy about the arrival of the group SMN 2016.

"Our students we serves with various events and activities, such as visiting the area Tambang Air Laya to see the process of coal mining, which we did," said Suhedi to the media on the sidelines of the event.

At the event, students SMN 2016 had the opportunity to show their distinctive culture of the region, such as dances, songs and traditional fashion show typical North Maluku. They can also know the culture of South Sumatra of treats dances and songs performed by the students of SMK Bukit Asam.

Meanwhile, Head of the Culture Department of the North Maluku Provincial Education Drs. H. Ruslan Mustafa, MSi. who accompanied the entourage SMN 2016 said, South Sumatra and North Maluku already had close relations since ancient times, as evidenced by the site of the tomb of Sultan Mahmud Badarudin II in North Maluku.

"Hopefully this program become a means to again increase intimacy, brotherhood, and strengthen the unity among us, so that the Homeland always sturdy upright stand," he said.
SMN activity this time is the second year students exchange in order to provide insight into the social, cultural, education and entrepreneurship for high school students equal representation.

Arrival group of students SMN 2016 North Maluku province were released Governor Northern Province Abdul Gani Kasuba and Deputy Business Infrastructure Ministry of SOEs Hambra and the Director of BTN Sulis Usdoko was previously delayed due to the increased activity of Mount Gamalama which makes the entire flight schedule to and from the province closed.