Southeast Sulawesi (Southeast Sulawesi) Province recorded a very high export value in the first semester of 2025-reaching around Rp 25 trillion-which came from 12 leading commodities such as nickel, fisheries, coconut, nutmeg, cloves, cocoa, and coffee. Although dominated by the mining sector-such as ferronickel ore and nickel-a variety of non-mining commodities also contributed significantly. Fishery products, for example, became the second largest contributor, demonstrating the region's increasingly solid export diversification.
The added value of non-mining commodities also increased. Sultra's fisheries exports have seen a significant surge - as in the shipment of 98 tons of marine products worth up to IDR 28 trillion to the United States and Thailand in June 2025 - demonstrating the quality of local products that increasingly meet international standards. The study from Kendari Customs highlights the need to better develop downstreaming to support the growth of non-mining exports to balance the dominance of the mining sector.
