Future trend of mineral industries development in Indonesia

Abstract

The aim of this study is to figure out the vision of effort of utilizing the remainder of the available mineral asset in the country, where Indonesia is necessarily seeking new opportunity toward developing mineral industry (hydrocarbon, metal, and non-metal) such as fine chemical industry, alloy (stainless/tool steel), fibre, ceramic block, super/semiconductor in the purpose of supporting super downstream industry that could produce massive mineral products containing high added value. Moreover, those downstream industries require high quantity and quality of minerals as raw material. The methodology applied in this study is based on a descriptive analytical method combined with dynamic commodity models to find the problems encountered in the effort to gain highest added value in mineral utilization.