Groundbreaking For The Development Of Green Industrial Estates In North Kalimantan, Jokowi: This Project Will Need 100 Thousand Workers

President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. (Photo: Doc. Setpres)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) asked the local government (Pemda) and all its staff to prepare human resources (HR) to support Indonesia's green industrial area (KIHI) in North Kalimantan.

The request was conveyed by Jokowi during the groundbreaking or groundbreaking of the Indonesian green industrial area (KIHI) in Bulungan Regency, North Kalimantan, today, Tuesday, December 21, 2021.

"I ask the ministers, as well as governors and regents to prepare human resources, prepare human resources to support this industrial area. Because this requires human resources who have good qualifications, prepare them from now on," Jokowi said, Tuesday, December 21.

Jokowi said that the construction period will require around 100,000 workers. This number will continue to grow when the KIHI project in North Kalimantan is operational.

"At the time of operation, they were only here, not yet the descendants of the products produced, I estimate 60,000. More than 200 thousand plus children and grandchildren derived from the products that are passed down," he said.

Furthermore, Jokowi said he was happy that KIHI in North Kalimantan would use the latest or hi-tech technologies. Various products will be produced from this industrial area, one of which is Sodium-ion.

"Because what will be produced is that later there will be Sodium-ion, Lithium-ion, semiconductor and petrochemical, all of whose derivatives will later be turned into textiles into other products. Products will appear from here to green aluminum, solar panels, industrial silicone, everything will emerge from this North Kalimantan, this region," he said.

Jokowi said that the Indonesian Green Industrial Estate was built with great cooperation between Indonesia, Chinese investors and the United Arab Emirates. He also hopes that this industrial area can become the largest green industrial area in the world.

"We hope that it can become the world's largest green industrial area, North Kalimantan is not Indonesia, but the world. Because it involves 16,400 hectares of land so far and the target is 30 thousand hectares. like what, what kind of situation," he said.