WEST PAPUA – The Government of the Republic of Indonesia continues to intensify the National Strategic Project, including in the easternmost region of Papua, with the existence of this it is clear that it will greatly benefit all people on Earth of Cenderawasih because it is also able to improve the welfare of citizens while also opening up a lot of jobs that can be utilized by the indigenous Papuan people themselves.
After more than 40 years of no fertilizer factory construction in Indonesia, and finally on November 24, 2023 PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero) built a new factory located in Fakfak, West Papua. The construction officially began with the Groundbreaking (laying of the first stone) by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
President Director of PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero) Rahmad Pribadi explained that the existence of a new factory in Cenderawasih Earth will clearly be able to further strengthen the fertilizer cluster, especially in the eastern region of the country, and it is known that the fertilizer plant in Fakfak is one of the National Strategic Projects which continues to be intensified by the Government and has a vital role in maintaining national food security.
For its own capacity, the fertilizer plant in Fakfak is able to provide urea fertilizer up to 1.15 million tons per year and also as much as 825 thousand tons per year for ammonia. If things continue to run smoothly and the plant will be able to deliver, the national fertilizer industry can even become the largest in the Asia Pacific region. The gas source supplied to carry out the project is taken from the agreed gas source, namely the Asap, Merah and Kido Fields located in Kasuri, West Papua.
The existence of the project in the fertilizer cluster has indeed received very serious attention from the Government because it has a very large positive multiplier effect or impact on the community itself and it is not surprising that the potential contribution of the factory to domestic economic growth through the portion of the Domestic Component Level reaches up to 10 Trillion Rupiah, while for its contribution to state revenues it is estimated to be able to be at 20 Billion Rupiah per year and around 15 Billion Rupiah for local government revenues in Papua.
During the duration of development or peak construction period, the fertilizer plant in Fakfak is also capable of absorbing up to 10 thousand new workers and as many as 400 people when the plant operates later.
