Director-general of mineral and coal in the energy and mineral resources, ministry of Ridwan Djamaluddin says the Indonesian government need more billion more than us $8 to 30 a total investment of the construction of the smelter. Under the background of the investment, it really is valuable in Indonesia at this time.Ridwan said, there are 19 refinery, the goal is to build four hong refinery in 2021. The four in the refinery, lead and zinc refinery 1 home, three new nickel smelters.'as a result, by 2024, will build 30 nickel smelters, total investment plans to more than $8 billion, "Ridwan VII DPR with committee RI (RDP) said at the hearing held.
According to the Ridwan, the construction of the refinery cure is to support the downstream nickel industry plan. He explained that the downstream is a total value-added process, its connotation is the revenue for countries to provide better value, and create jobs.According to the geological survey data in December 2020, 13.7 billion tons of nickel resources available for BJ, total proven and probable reserves of 4.6 billion tons of B.He added that the smelter construction progress is less than 30%, there are 5 companies, total capacity of 9.21 million tons/year, production capacity of 6.9 million tons/year. At the same time, there are 15 companies treat refinery construction rate of close to 90%. The total capacity of 49.3 million tons/year.
