Minister Of Industry Appreciate Youth Spirit Encourages Industrial Growth of Homeland

INDUSTRY.co.id - Jakarta, Minister of Industry, Airlangga Hartarto Highly appreciate the spirit of Kader Bangsa Fellowship program in advancing the industry in Indonesia. It was delivered Airlangga Hartarto after receiving friends from the Cadre Nation Fellowship program Batch VI in the office of the Ministry of Industry, Jakarta (31/7/2017).

"The growth of the non-oil and gas processing industry in Q1 / 2010 was 4.71% (y-o-y), an increase compared to the same period of 2016 which reached 4.51% (y-o-y)," Airlangga said.

He added that the chemical, pharmaceutical and traditional medicine industry is a sector that grew high in the first quarter-2017 of 8.34%.

Meanwhile, total investment value in the manufacturing sector in the first quarter of 2017 amounted to Rp70.2 trillion. The investment value in the first quarter of this year is greater than the total investment value of the manufacturing industry in 2010 of Rp48.47 trillion.

"The three biggest industrial sectors with the biggest investment value from 2010 are basic chemical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, basic metal industry, metal goods, machinery and electronics, and food industry," he explained.

For the workforce, Menperin continued, the total workforce of the industrial sector in 2017 amounted to 16.57 million people. When compared to the year 2010 the number of industrial sector workforce of 12.96 million people. "So the total employment of the industrial sector has increased by 31.6 percent," Airlangga said.

Globally, the total value-added manufacturing industry reached US $ 11.9 trillion by 2016. Around 78.465 is distributed in 15 countries and Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest Global MVA. "This is evidenced by the entry of Indonesia as the top 10 world Manufacture," he added.

To respond to the challenges of national industry development, Ministry of Industry has prepared national industry priority policy that is, strengthening human resources through strengthening industrial vocation, deepening of industrial structure through strengthening industrial value chain, labor-intensive industry and export orientation, developing IKM with digital platform, And industrial zoning development.

Airlangga hope, hopefully the spirit of these young children continue to be nurtured so as to support the growth of the industry in the country.