Minister Maru added, “While Indonesia has traditionally relied on imports of manufactured items, advanced know-how, and technical expertise, it has efficiently transitioned from a major sector financial system to one focused on secondary and tertiary industries. “Downstream processing has been highly successful in Indonesia, creating hundreds of jobs, transferring higher-value abilities, and introducing advanced technological processes. The nickel SEZ at Weda Bay alone created 80,000 direct jobs and 12,000 indirect jobs—more jobs than PNG’s entire mining and petroleum industries combined. In 2022, investment in downstream mining surged to almost US$9.2 billion, compared to US$4.1 billion in 2019,” Maru noted, emphasising …