JAKARTA -- President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Thursday inaugurated Freeport Indonesia's newly expanded copper smelter in Gresik, East Java province, as the government looks to impose a permanent ban on copper concentrate exports next year.
The $250 million expansion project has added to the processing capacity of the smelter run by Smelting, a company jointly owned by the local unit of U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan and Japan's Mitsubishi Materials.
