JAKARTA - Deputy for Investment Promotion of the Ministry of Investment/BKPM Nurul Ichwan said that Indonesia has been eyed by more than 30 companies from Europe as investment destination countries.
"After this pandemic, there have been more than 30 companies from Europe, especially those that are approaching us," said Nurul in a discussion on the 9th Merdeka Forum (FMB9) with the theme "Future Industry with an Environmental Introspection Hannover Messe 2023" in Jakarta, Monday, March 27.
Even so, Nurul has not been able to reveal in detail the names of the companies interested in investing in Indonesia.
"I'm sorry I can't disclose European companies that are interested (investing) in Indonesia yet," he said.
Nurul said, there are several reasons that make Indonesia one of the target countries for foreign company investors, namely Indonesia has good economic growth of more than five percent.
Then, Indonesia has good natural resources, there is also a policy to downstream the wealth of natural resources. "So, the effort to collaborate with Indonesia is very thick," said Nurul.
Nurul also said that generally foreign investors are interested in investing in the automotive sector.
This is because Indonesia is one of the countries with the largest nickel potential in the world.
So that the world needs Indonesia's help to develop technology in the future, especially related to the development of electric vehicles.
"The number in the automotive sector, so we know that this technology that will develop in the future will replace existing technology into electric cars and related to electric cars, Indonesia is one of the countries with the largest nickel potential in the world, so the world cannot move without Indonesia," he concluded.
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