The Ministry of Industry is determined to continue to spur the development of the petrochemical industry by providing competent workers or human resources to meet domestic market needs, considering that the products produced can be used by other manufacturing sectors as raw materials.
The sectors that utilize products from the petrochemical industry are plastics, textiles, synthetic rubber, cosmetics, cleaning materials and pharmaceuticals.
"Petrochemical is the mother of industry . This means that the petrochemical industry is the main pillar in the development of various derivative industries in Indonesia. By building the petrochemical industry, it will help strengthen and deepen the manufacturing structure in Indonesia so that it can be more competitive," said Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita in Jakarta, Wednesday.
The Minister of Industry said that one of the strategic steps that his party has accelerated is supporting the construction of refineries or oil refineries to strengthen the upstream in the petrochemical sector because it optimizes naphtha production which is a raw material requirement for a number of industrial sectors.
