Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto revealed that the investment flow into the Kendal Special Economic Zone (SEZ) has reached IDR 205.2 trillion and the absorption of workers has reached 132,777 people.
“From the SEZ there are 12 industrial SEZs including the Kendal SEZ and yesterday the president’s direction was that we will create a SEZ in Batang,” said Airlangga, Wednesday (7/8/2024).
With the presence of the Kendal SEZ, Airlangga said that growth in Kendal has reached 42% and per capita income there has reached 52 million per year with a growth of 8%.
Today, Wednesday (7/7/2024), Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) inaugurated the lithium battery anode material factory owned by PT Indonesia BTR New Energy Material, in Kendal, East Java.
The existence of this factory will make Indonesia the largest anode producer in the world. Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that the investment of PT Indonesia BTR New Energy material is able to make Indonesia the largest Anode producer in the world.
“The capacity of 80 thousand tons is capable, enough to produce 1.5 million electric cars, they will make phase II which is targeted to be completed in March 2025, so that the total production is 160 thousand tons,” he said.
“With this capacity, Indonesia will become the second largest (producer) in the world, the factory in Japan has a capacity of 10 thousand tons, South Korea 40 thousand tons, the largest in China 100 thousand tons, so we will pass China in the future,” said Luhut.
August 7, 2024, CNBC Indonesia
(https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20240807122432-4-561086/SEZ-kendal-serap-investasi-rp-205-triliun-di-semester-i-2024)