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Bentoel to Spend $88 Million on Cigarette Plants, Post Reports  

PT Bentoel Internasional Investama, Indonesia's third-largest publicly traded cigarette maker, plans to invest 800 billion rupiah ($88 million) this year to build new plants, the Jakarta Post reported.

The new cigarette plants will use tobacco bought from Brazil, India, China, Greece, Turkey, U.S. and Indonesia, the newspaper reported, citing Satrija Budi Wibawa, corporate secretary of the company's cigarette making unit.

Bentoel makes cigarettes including Star Mild and X Mild.

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