A consortium of 15 Saudi Arabian investors is ready to take part in the Merauke Integrated Rice Estate (MIRE), injecting at least Rp 600 billion (US$65.04 million) into the region, an official says. Writing by Novia D. Rulistia for The The Agriculture Ministry's secretary-general, Hasanuddin Ibrahim, said Wednesday each investor wanted to open about 5,000 to 10,000 hectares of land in Merauke, Papua.
"To open the land, investors need about Rp 8 million to Rp 10 million per hectare. So an investor needs to invest Rp 40 billion for every 5,000 hectares of land they want to open," he said after the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the State Logistics Agency (Bulog).
Merauke Integrated Rice Estate is a program designed to make the Merauke regency in Papua province an integrated rice production complex for supplying the staple food to eastern areas of the archipelago. The government has provided 1.6 million hectares of land for the program.
The ministry earlier said the investment would also be channeled for the construction of 700 kilometers of roads in the regency, 1,500 kilometers of connecting road to
The Central Statistic Agency says total harvest area last year in Papua was 20,788 hectares, up from 19,898 hectares a year earlier. The total harvest area in
The ministry said the investors from the world's largest oil producer chose
Hasanuddin said there were also several local firms interested in joining the MIRE program, including Medco E&P
According to the Investment Coordinating Board, Saudi realized investment in
In addition to investment in the agriculture sector, investors from
The government has taken considerable measures to attract investment from Middle Eastern countries, such as the introduction of the country's first law on sharia banking and the president's visit to
Other Middle Eastern investors who have expressed investment plans in
source: BKPM | July 2008
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