Widodo tells Parliament that North Kalimantan will be world's biggest green industrial park


ndonesian President Joko Widodo (second from right) attends the groundbreaking of PT Kalimantan Industrial Park in North Kalimantan on Dec 21, 2021. - INDONESIA’S PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE

JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Indonesia is committed to building an integrated ecosystem for industries that will support the development of the global green economy, said President Joko Widodo.

And North Kalimantan province will become the biggest green industrial park in the world where electricity can be massively sourced from hydro power plants as well as solar panels, he said in his annual state of the union speech to Parliament on Tuesday (Aug 16).

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