NORTH MALUKU, Indonesia: It was a quarter past eight in the evening but Mdm Imah Fatmalati still had a job to complete before calling it a day. The 39-year-old Indonesian was busy sewing
NORTH MALUKU, Indonesia: It was a quarter past eight in the evening but Mdm Imah Fatmalati still had a job to complete before calling it a day.
“The money is better here. I was a contract staff at a hospital earning 800,000 rupiah per month,” she said.So far, her customers are mostly workers who work at PT Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park , an industrial area in Central Halmahera. Eventually, Indonesia aims to manufacture EVs locally. But for now, the government is focused on developing nickel smelter hubs.
"There is a smelter industry there which will grow further if there are more smelters. All those derivatives industries of nickel can be done in North Maluku," he said at an event last November. Tidore’s Sultan Husain Alting Sjah told CNA that only a small portion of North Maluku’s 1.3 million population has benefitted from the province’s economic boom.
Mr Reynald Manggis, who owns a small bubble tea stall outside of IWIP, said that telecommunication connectivity is lacking.“If the reception here is good, where there is proper Internet … perhaps people here would be more prosperous,” he said, adding that this will make it easier to do business including for the small companies.Besides issues about unequal wealth distribution, residents of North Maluku also have to contend with environmental degradation as a result of the smelters.
The company runs programmes to restore the land damaged by the mining. They also monitor the health of the surrounding waters and replant mangroves, he said.LIFTING OF EXPORT BAN ON NICKEL MAY IMPACT REGIONAL GROWTH This means that foreign companies which have invested in smelter hubs like IWIP and IMIP may pull out and decide to just import raw material.
The potential implication is that North Maluku’s economic growth - touted by Jokowi as the highest globally - may not be sustainable in the long run.
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