Food giant Indofood admitted on Friday that it has been forced to delay the construction of its new US$36m milk plant in East Java in order to focus on its core instant noodle and cooking oil operations.

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The company’s chief administration officer Indra Josepha explained to Dow Jones that it has not yet been decided when work on the plant will resume: “If the time comes, we will then restart the project.”


Previously, Indofood had said that the milk operation would start in 2004 and produce 60,000 tons of sweetened condensed milk.

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