striver44
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Yup, Sumatra needs to be industrialized further. The palm oil industry there should be stopped from expansion mode forever. Government itself is already quite serious with the idea that make them decide to stop supplying Singapore with gas right after the contract is finished in 2023 and use the gas for industrializing Sumatra island further.
The Sumatra highway with length of 2700 km will also be finished in 2024 according to the plan. There will be many areas along the road that can be chosen for another industrial complex zone. Beside in North Sumatra, Riau province is also very strategic due to the location which is near Singapore. Batam island (next to the Singapore) has already been quite full with a lot of industry. Gas pipe line form gas field in Riau that currently still supply Singapore (and will be stopped in 2023 inshaAllah) will be easier to supply industry complex around Riau Province.
Just look at the vast inhabited land across the road between Riau province capital, Pekanbaru, into Dumai city where the container port is planned to be built there. Actually that vast land has already been occupied with palm oil but I believe it will not be difficult to convert some of them into industrial complex zone. The minimum wage in Riau is higher than in Central Java where Batang industrial complex is located but is still much quite competitive than Singapore and Malaysia. And even it is still half the Minimum wage of Batam island.
New High Way, Pekan Baru-Dumai
Bintan and Galang Island (Next to Singapore)
Bintan Island itself, island which is next to Batam will be used more on tourism and aerospace industry (particularly MRO Industry). Bintan island airport construction is almost finished.
Bintan is relatively quite empty with island larger than Singapore and has its own fresh water supply.
The industrialization in Bintan and Galang Island will likely be speed up after the bridge connecting Batam-Galang-Bintan island is finished in 2025 inshaAllah. The residential areas in the island need to be in the form of apartment than houses, in order to spare more land for industry and green zone (to retain fresh water supply)
Batam-Galang-Bintan bridge proposal
can't agree more, palm tress industry need to add value by actually erecting specialized palm oil processing factory to make processed product instead of relying on solely exporting raw palms abroad,by this not only we increase the value of the commodity we also stop the almost daily forest fire as a result of greedy plantation expansions.
the highway and infrastructure connecting these cities must be expedite and expanded:
-Medan
-Pekanbaru
-Dumai
you see these cities are very close to world capitals and financial centers like KL and SG, erecting a cross strait bridge like the one proposed (here)will integrate these areas more into the world economy, catapulting Sumatra into our next economic powerhouse.