Indonesia imports 2.6 million tons of salt a year

Published 2021년 3월 16일

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Indonesia is facing a persistent problem with insufficient domestic production of salt, despite having the world's longest coastline. The country relied on imports of 2.61 million tons of salt in 2020, spending US $ 94.55 million, and has continued to import salt into 2021. The government, however, is still gathering data on Indonesia's salt demand and plans to cover any shortages through imports. The main importers of Indonesian salt are Australia, China, India, Thailand, and New Zealand.

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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Food imports will still be a routine activity in the future because domestic production is still insufficient. The main thing is salt. When chairing a limited meeting to accelerate the absorption of salt in October 2020, Jokowi appeared 'angry' because his staff were unable to solve the problem of salt imports that had been ingrained for a long time. Data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded that the realization of Indonesian salt imports throughout 2020 reached 2.61 million tons with a value of US $ 94.55 million, an increase in volume compared to the realization of imports in 2019 and 2018. In 2019, in terms of volume, Indonesian salt imports reached 2.59 million tonnes with a value of US $ 95.52 million. Meanwhile, in 2018, the import volume of Indonesian salt reached 2.84 million tons or the value of US $ 90.65 million. As for January-February 2021, Indonesia is recorded as still importing salt with a volume of 80.2 thousand tons, ...

Source: Cnbcindonesia