Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The Ministry of Industry recorded 5.27 percent growth of the non-oil and gas processing industry nationwide in the second quarter of 2015.
"The amount of industrial growth in the second quarter of 2015 is 5.27 percent, up from the first quarter which was 5.21 percent," Minister of Industry Saleh Husin said here Friday.
The industrial growth rate is higher than the economic growth valued in the second quarter of 2015 amounting to 4.67 percent.
These values reinforce the ministry's optimism to continue working and focusing on the development and improvement of industrial structures and downstream which support better economic growth and provide employment, Husin said.
Until the second quarter, the total investment value in the second quarter of 2015 reached US$ 5.07 billion, in which increased by 14.5 percent compared to the same period in 2014 amounted to $4.43 billion, he added.
"According to the President's speech which mentions that the direction of development is to reduce poverty and equitable development, in essence, the development of national industry also supports the welfare of the community," the minister said.
The program is also listed as a priority of the Ministry of Industry in 2016, among others such as the development of industrial zoning outside of Java in the form of six industrial growth centers, particularly those in the economic corridors, 25 industrial designation areas, and 14 industrial zones, apart from 5 small and medium-sized industry centers.
In addition, is the revitalization of the textile and miscellaneous industries company, manufacture of passenger trains prototype, and the preparation of coal gasification-based methanol plant with a capacity of 500,000 tons per year, in addition to the manufacture of 10 thousand tons of paracetamol per year, amoxicillin manufacture of 750 tons per year, and manufacture of 6,000 tons of pharmaceutical salts per year. (WDY)
