The head of BKPM Bahlil Lahadalia said that investment outside Java has increasingly attracted domestic and foreign investors. It is undeniable, said Bahlil, that Indonesia's infrastructure development outside Java is getting better."What's interesting is that the realization outside Java has made investors from within and outside the country more interested, why? because it is undeniable from the past and present administrations, our infrastructure development outside Java is getting better," said Bahlil in a Working Meeting with Commission VI DPR, Monday (30/8/2021).

Therefore, as an effort to encourage a better investment climate in Indonesia, his party provides more incentives to companies that build industries outside Java."We have a strategy of providing more incentives to companies that build downstream and industries outside Java. As part of the government's presence to increase the Break Even Point, it can be achieved," he said. Bahlil further explained that Indonesia's investment realization until the first semester of 2021 had reached Rp 442.7 trillion from the 2021 investment target of Rp 900 trillion. Of the 442.7 trillion, Indonesia's foreign investment reached 51.6 percent or Rp. 228.5 trillion. "Actually, the Covid-19 condition, the world's trust in Indonesia in investing its investment is much better, this is marked by the second quarter or combined in the semester it has reached 51.6 percent," Bahlil said in a Working Meeting with Commission VI of the DPR, Monday (April 17, 2018). 30/8/2021).
Thus, FDI semester I-2021 is better than the same period in 2020 which is still below 50 percent. Furthermore, the realization of Domestic Investment (PMDN) in the first semester of 2021 has reached Rp 214.2 trillion or 48.4 percent.

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