{"id":6392,"date":"2015-11-29T02:58:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T02:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T02:33:08","slug":"kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA\u2014 Domestic demand for crude steel keeps increasing. In 2009 steel demand was about 7.4 tons, hiking into 12.7 tons in 2014. Infrastructure, construction, shipyard, and automobile industry require more steel supply.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Industry Mr Saleh Husin said there must be more investment in steel production in order to provide adequate supply of steel to domestic demands and to reduce dependency on imported steel. \u201cInfrastructure alone, worth some IDR 5,000 trillion up to 2019, requires some 17.5 million tons of steel each year,\u201d said the Minister in \u201cConference &#038; Technology Forum for Indonesia Steel Industry Development\u201d in Jakarta on 24 November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the ministry puts metal (especially iron and steel) industry among other prioritised industries. Metal industry produces materials for other industries\u2014 shipyard, oil and gas, heavy equipment, automobile, and electronics industries.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Industry\u2019s data indicate that there are 1,167 steel industries that employ over 300,000 work forces. However, downstream steel industry grows faster than its upstream counterpart. This gap causes lack domestic steel supply for intermediate and downstream steel industry. \u201cWe should depend on considerable supply of imported steel,\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA\u2014 Domestic demand for crude steel keeps increasing. In 2009 steel demand was about 7.4 tons, hiking into 12.7 tons in 2014. Infrastructure, construction, shipyard, and automobile industry require more steel supply. Minister of Industry Mr Saleh Husin said there must be more investment in steel production in order to provide adequate supply of steel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-industry-en","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry - GAIKINDO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry - GAIKINDO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JAKARTA\u2014 Domestic demand for crude steel keeps increasing. In 2009 steel demand was about 7.4 tons, hiking into 12.7 tons in 2014. Infrastructure, construction, shipyard, and automobile industry require more steel supply. Minister of Industry Mr Saleh Husin said there must be more investment in steel production in order to provide adequate supply of steel [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GAIKINDO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-11-29T02:58:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-12-07T02:33:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"427\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sigit Pramono\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sigit Pramono\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2146a306de418f080e34cc1b1f499d6a\"},\"headline\":\"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-29T02:58:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-07T02:33:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Industry &amp; Business\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/\",\"name\":\"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry - GAIKINDO\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-11-29T02:58:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-07T02:33:08+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":427},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/\",\"name\":\"GAIKINDO\",\"description\":\"Gabungan Indostri Kendaraan Bermotor Indonesia\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Gaikindo\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GAIKINDO\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Logo-GAIKINDO.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Logo-GAIKINDO.png\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":1067,\"caption\":\"GAIKINDO\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2146a306de418f080e34cc1b1f499d6a\",\"name\":\"Sigit Pramono\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/author\/sigitpramonosaja\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry - GAIKINDO","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry - GAIKINDO","og_description":"JAKARTA\u2014 Domestic demand for crude steel keeps increasing. In 2009 steel demand was about 7.4 tons, hiking into 12.7 tons in 2014. Infrastructure, construction, shipyard, and automobile industry require more steel supply. Minister of Industry Mr Saleh Husin said there must be more investment in steel production in order to provide adequate supply of steel [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/","og_site_name":"GAIKINDO","article_published_time":"2015-11-29T02:58:19+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-12-07T02:33:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":427,"url":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sigit Pramono","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/"},"author":{"name":"Sigit Pramono","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2146a306de418f080e34cc1b1f499d6a"},"headline":"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry","datePublished":"2015-11-29T02:58:19+00:00","dateModified":"2017-12-07T02:33:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/"},"wordCount":185,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg","articleSection":["Industry &amp; Business","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/","url":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/","name":"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry - GAIKINDO","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg","datePublished":"2015-11-29T02:58:19+00:00","dateModified":"2017-12-07T02:33:08+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/baja.jpg","width":640,"height":427},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/kementerian-perindustrian-dorong-investasi-baja-hulu\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ministry of Industry to Boost Upstream Steel Industry"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/","name":"GAIKINDO","description":"Gabungan Indostri Kendaraan Bermotor Indonesia","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Gaikindo","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#organization","name":"GAIKINDO","url":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Logo-GAIKINDO.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Logo-GAIKINDO.png","width":1280,"height":1067,"caption":"GAIKINDO"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2146a306de418f080e34cc1b1f499d6a","name":"Sigit Pramono","url":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/author\/sigitpramonosaja\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaikindo.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}