Dominated By Oil And Gas, Investment Realization Of The ESDM Sector Reaches 17.20 Billion US Dollars As Of August

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) reported that investment realization until August 2025 had penetrated 17.20 billion US dollars. This figure shows 8.5 percent growth compared to the same period in 2024, which was recorded at 15.85 billion US dollars.

Investment growth is dominated by oil and gas sub-sectors of 10.22 billion US dollars. Then followed by mineral and coal sub-sectors amounting to 3.80 billion US dollars.

"This is clear evidence of investor confidence in the government's seriousness in changing the direction of the economy," said the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Bahlil Lahadalia, Wednesday, October 22.

Meanwhile, the realization of Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) for the ESDM sector until the first semester of 2025 has reached IDR 183.3 trillion or 71.99 percent of the target.

He detailed that this revenue was dominated by the contribution of mineral and coal sub-sectors of Rp100.2 trillion and oil and gas sub-sectors of Rp73.3 trillion.

Bahlil emphasized that this success was due to the firm and precise direction of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto in order to avoid being a country that condemns natural resources.

"President Prabowo has guided suitably and firmly the new direction (the policy of the ESDM sector) towards the constitutional mandate," Bahlil explained.

According to him, these figures provide two important signals, namely the sustainability of downstream projects and increasing investor confidence in the policy direction implemented by the government.

"With more and more value-added products produced domestically, the potential to expand the tax base and boost regional revenues is increasingly open," explained Bahlil.

The chairman of the Golkar Party also claimed that in the past year, pro-people policies in the Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) sector began to show tangible results. Not only building physical facilities, the government pays attention to how these projects are able to change people's lives through increasing skills and absorption of local workers.

The steps taken are measurable, Bahlil continued, ranging from training and certification programs for workers, space opening for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), cooperatives, and Regional Owned Enterprises (BUMD) to project placement outside industrial centers so that development benefits are more equitable.

"The goal is to spread the benefits of development so that it can be felt in villages and small cities, not only in the economic center," said Bahlil.