This Is The Challenge Of The Nickel Industry That Prabowo Will Face When He Becomes President Of The Republic Of Indonesia

Nickel (Photo: dock. Antara)

JAKARTA - China-Global South Project (CGSP) revealed a number of challenges that will be faced by Elected President Prabowo Subianto from the Indonesian nickel industry.

Antonia Timmerman, editor of Southeast Asia CGSP and lead researcher of the project said the report and data devices emphasized that nickel explosions in Indonesia were built on a weak foundation or with flawed policies, unsustainable practices, and increasing geopolitical tensions that immediately required the government's attention.

"One of the things we are doing in this research process is monitoring local and national media reports around nickel projects in Indonesia, and we found that a third of nickel projects in Indonesia are suspected or accused of corruption in practice," Antonia said in a statement to the media, Monday, September 7.

Antonia continued, as many as 90 percent of the alleged corruption cases came from the nickel mining sector. Cases of corruption and illegal mining are closely related to environmental damage.

"Meanwhile, it is very difficult to know the real shareholders of many nickel projects in Indonesia due to the deliberately made ownership structure complicated or unclear," he continued.

Antonia also said it was difficult for the community to hold accountable if there were projects that violated the rules.

"This is very concerning, and we hope that the new president can make improvements in the nickel sector," said Antonia.

Which is no less important, he continued, his party found that the promise of downstreaming or downstreaming, namely the dream of processing raw nickel into electric vehicle batteries, had not yet been realized in real terms.

In practice, Antonia said that Indonesia's battery production capacity is still very low, and if the rate is left the same as it is now, Indonesia will never be one of the main battery suppliers in the world.

"In fact, our nickel is now mostly still used to produce stainless steel," he concluded.