Indonesia’s Value-Added Processing Investment Reaches $26.69 B
Jakarta. Indonesia attracted Rp 480.1 trillion ($26.69 billion) in investment in value-added processing in January-September 2026, up 11.3% from the same period last year, accounting for 31.2% of total investment realization, Investment Minister Rosan Roeslani said on Monday.
Mineral processing attracted the largest share of investment, at Rp 335.1 trillion. Nickel accounted for Rp 118.9 trillion, followed by bauxite at Rp 115.7 trillion, iron and steel at Rp 40.8 trillion, copper at Rp 39.5 trillion, silica sand at Rp 7 trillion and other minerals at Rp 13.2 trillion.
Other mineral commodities included tin, coal, cobalt, manganese, gold, silver, Buton asphalt and rare earth metals.
Investment in plantation and forestry commodity processing reached Rp 83.6 trillion, led by palm oil at Rp 44.4 trillion and timber logs at Rp 25.3 trillion. Rubber accounted for Rp 8.9 trillion, while other commodities, including pine resin, coconut, cocoa and biofuel, contributed Rp 4.9 trillion.
Oil and gas-related investment reached Rp 54 trillion, comprising Rp 41.1 trillion in oil and Rp 12.9 trillion in natural gas. Investment in agriculture and other forestry-related commodities reached Rp 7.3 trillion. These commodities included salt, tuna, skipjack, mackerel tuna, shrimp, seaweed, swimming crabs and tilapia.
Foreign investors accounted for 75% of investment in value-added processing, or Rp 357.6 trillion, while domestic investors contributed Rp 122.4 trillion, representing 25%.
Investment outside Java reached Rp 373.1 trillion, or 78% of the total, compared with Rp 106.9 trillion, or 22%, in Java.
“Outside Java, investment in value-added processing accounted for 78% of the total. Meanwhile, Java received 22%” Rosan said.
Central Sulawesi attracted the largest investment among provinces, at Rp 100.4 trillion, followed by North Maluku at Rp 84.1 trillion, West Java at Rp 36.9 trillion, West Kalimantan at Rp 35.4 trillion and North Sulawesi at Rp 27.9 trillion.
Hong Kong was the largest source of foreign investment in value-added processing, contributing Rp 146 trillion, followed by Singapore at Rp 116.1 trillion, China at Rp 34.1 trillion, Japan at Rp 12.5 trillion and South Korea at Rp 8.7 trillion.
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