President Joko Widodo groundbreaking an electric vehicle battery factory in Karawang, West Java. This electric car factory is the first in Indonesia. “And by saying bismillahirohmanirohim, today the groundbreaking of the electric vehicle battery industrial factory PT. HKML Battery Indonesia, I declare that it has started," Jokowi said.
President Jokowi said that the factory is the first in Indonesia and even in Southeast Asia. With an investment value of USD1.1 billion or IDR15.6 trillion. “We should be grateful today to witness the groundbreaking of the construction of the first electric vehicle battery factory in Indonesia. Even the first in Southeast Asia with an investment value of USD1.1 billion," he said. Jokowi said this project is a manifestation of the government's seriousness in downstreaming the industry.
"And we must dare to change the economic structure that has been commodity-based to enter downstream, enter into industrialization to become a strong industrial country based on the development of technological innovation," he explained.
