It was expected that
industries in China which had been contributive to investment development and
propelled infra-structure development in Indonesia would eventually relocate
their business investment to Indonesia. This was set forth by the Director
General of technology-based Premium Industry of the Ministry of Industry Budi
Darmadi as Representative of the Ministry of Industry during opening session of
INDO ICON 212 International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Vehicles,
Building Machinery and Mining Machinery in Jakarta on Thursday (17/5).
The expo was conducted by the China Construction and
Machinery Association (CCMA) and the China Council for the Promotion of
International Trade Machinery Sub Council (CCPIT) MSC in collaboration with PT
Peraga Nusantara Jaya Sakti or Peraga Expo. The expo was conducted for 4 days
from 17 to 20 May 2012 in Jakarta.
According to Wang Shoubo as Division Director China
Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) sub council Machinery
as long as bilateral trade relations with China reached USD 43 billion of which
one third was estimated as heavy equipment materials among other equipments for
building raw materials.
In return Indonesia exported to China natural gas, wood,
nickel, minery products like iron ore and copper. Data of BPS processed by the
Ministry of Trade of RI had it some commodities which posted significant
increase to China were among others manggosteen (174.6 %), cacao powder
(116.5%) footwear (309.8%) and home lighting equipments which increased ten
thousand times. Other fruits from Indonesia were among others papaya and salak
which was within the framework of ASEAN-China Free Trade (ACFTA) so they were
free of import tax to china, Shoubo was quoted as saying.
“China is highly in need of coal supply from Indonesia,
even today China’s consumption of coal are imported from Indonesia. By 2025
Indonesia’s production output of coal would reach 405 million tons, of which
more than 2/3 would be used for export. On the other hand, Indonesia with a
population of 235 million need support to carry out development, especially
infra structure, and for that matter China is willing to be engaged in
partnership with Indonesia with the aim to make Indonesia a potential market in
construction equipment as well as minery” Shoubo remarked.
While facilitating growth opportunity for business and
technology in machinery industry, construction and building materials in Indonesia,
construction and building materials in Indonesia, INDO ICON 2012 would expose
building materials, roof structuring, building foundation materials, interior
materials and building materials technology.
Supported by the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of
Public Works, Association of Indonesian National Construction Undertaker
(DAPENSI) and KADIN Indonesia, ICON 2012 and BIMEX 2012 occupied an area of
10.000 sq M participated by 120 companies of 7 countries like Belgium, China,
Indonesia, Germany, Swiss, Singapore and Thailand.
This expo was targeted to be visited by 10,000
stakeholders in infra structure business consisting of contractors, building
equipment traders, suppliers, researchers and academicians, architects,
government officials, building construction experts, agencies and distributors,
and association of developers. On the first day of the event : May 17, 2012 a
business forum would be held under the theme of “Investment and Business
Collaboration Opportunities in engineering and construction, minery, and
building material technology in Indonesia.
Business News - May 23, 2012
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