Indonesia is the world’s largest nickel producer and it is trying to capitalise on its vast reserves, with a 2020 export ban spurring a domestic industrial boom of the key metal used in EV batteries and stainless steel.
“According to my calculation, it won’t take long, in probably between five to six years we will be able to reach energy self-sufficiency,“ Prabowo said at a groundbreaking ceremony in Karawang, West Java.
The West Java complex will focus on battery cell production, the minister said.
Alongside CATL, the Halmahera complex is backed by China’s Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and Indonesia’s state-owned Antam.
Environmental group Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) said in a statement Saturday that Jakarta was “chasing vague economic growth while consciously ignoring the people’s scream” to end damage to the environment and residents’ livelihoods.
A CRI report this month warned the Indonesian government was allowing environmental damage to go unchecked around the Weda Bay mine and the industrial park that hosts it.
An AFP report last month detailed how the home of the nomadic Hongana Manyawa tribe was being eaten away by mining operations there.
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