
Mineral-hungry China triples Indonesian investments as Jakarta pushes downstream processing
- Chinese investment into Indonesia reached US$1.56 billion between July and September, up from US$595.61 million a year earlier - China leans heavily on imports from resource-rich Indonesia, which is seeking to have more of its minerals processed domestically China is Indonesia’s second-largest foreign investor after Singapore and a major consumer of its raw materials. Chinese investment in Indonesia jumped in the third quarter driven by demand for raw materials used in manu