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Sixteen companies relocate to Indonesia amid global downturn

The investment of 16 firms setting up production sites in Indonesia last year is estimated at US$7.15 billion and expected to create around 68,600 jobs.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman (The Jakarta Post)
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Fri, January 22, 2021

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Sixteen companies relocate to Indonesia amid global downturn Approachable: Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) employees meet with business owners applying for business permits on July 7, 2020. (Antara/Galih Pradipta)

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ixteen companies have relocated to Indonesia from mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the United States despite the overall global downturn in investment due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, an official has said.

Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) head Bahlil Lahadalia said Thursday that the companies had either started construction or production last year. The investment was estimated to reach US$7.15 billion and create around 68,600 jobs.

“Back in 2018 and 2019, when the trade war between China and the US broke out, not a single company was relocating [to Indonesia],” Bahlil said in a virtual discussion held by media outlet Kompas. “In 2020, regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic, we managed to get at least 16 companies."

In 2019, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said he was upset because none of the 33 companies relocating from China to the Southeast Asian region chose Indonesia.

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Indonesia has been working to attract more investment into the country to help boost economic growth. Investment, which accounts for around 30 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), shrank 9.71 percent year-on-year (yoy) in the third quarter, or deeper than the contraction of 3.49 percent yoy recorded by the economy as a whole.

Bahlil also said on Thursday that American healthcare product manufacturer Johnson & Johnson, South Korean glass manufacturer KCC Glass and food and beverage company Heinz ABC had committed to either relocating or diversifying their production sites with new factories in Indonesia.

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