Indonesia: Jokowi bans salt imports starting in 2024

Published 2022년 11월 3일

Tridge summary

President Joko Widodo of Indonesia is pushing for the country to become less reliant on salt imports by 2024 through the acceleration of domestic salting activities. This push is backed by Presidential Regulation No. 126/022, which aims to meet national salt demand through domestic production. The regulation also focuses on the development of national salt for various industries such as food, pharmaceutical, and chemical. Local salt farmers welcome this initiative, believing they can meet most industrial needs with the current quality of salt, although there are concerns about meeting pharmaceutical standards and the need for technology and standardization in production.
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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) wants to speed up salting activities, so that they are no longer dependent on imports in 2024. including various industries from various food, pharmaceutical, and chemical. This is stated in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 126/022 concerning the Acceleration of National Salt Development, which was set on 27 October 2022. Through this regulation, Jokowi mandates that the national salt requirement must be met from domestic production by salt farmers and business entities no later than 2024. Namely, for consumption salt, various food industries, leather tanning, water treatment, animal feed, salting fish, livestock and plantations, soap and detergents, textiles, oil drilling, cosmetics, and even for pharmaceutical needs. This regulation also orders the acceleration of the development of national salt for all activities related to pre-production, production, post-production processing, to marketing of salt. Salt farmers ...

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