Industrial estates urge acceleration
Operators of Indonesia’s industrial estates have asked the government to form a special acceleration team to cut bureaucracy and speed investment realisation, saying slow approvals risk stalling projects. The call highlights problems with permits, utilities, land handovers and inter‑agency coordination that are delaying project starts, according to the industry group’s appeal. The plea was reported as a sign that converting announced investment into actual on‑the‑ground work is becoming materially harder for hosts of industrial projects. (ekonomi.bisnis.com)
Indonesia’s industrial-estate operators are asking Jakarta to set up a special task force to push stalled projects through permits, utilities and land handovers before investors walk away. (bisnis.com) The call came from the Indonesian Industrial Estates Association, or Himpunan Kawasan Industri Indonesia, whose chairman Akhmad Ma’ruf Maulana said on April 14 that investment commitments from recent government diplomacy now need “strong supervision” at the implementation stage. (bisnis.com, egindo.com) HKI said the bottlenecks are not only licensing. It pointed to delayed electricity and gas connections, unfinished access roads, slow release of land, and weak coordination between ministries, local governments and state utilities after investors have already announced projects. (bisnis.com, kontan.co.id) The request lands as President Prabowo Subianto’s government is trying to turn a large pipeline of pledged capital into factory construction and downstream-processing plants. Indonesia’s 2025-2029 national development plan is set out in Presidential Regulation No. 12 of 2025. (peraturan.bpk.go.id, peraturan.go.id) The pressure is rising because Indonesia did hit its national investment target last year. The Investment and Downstreaming Ministry, formerly the Investment Coordinating Board, reported 2025 realized investment at Rp1,931.2 trillion, or 101.3% of the presidential target of Rp1,905.6 trillion. (bkpm.go.id) Industrial estates are central to that plan because they package land, roads, power, water and permits in one place for manufacturers. The Industry Ministry said in January that Indonesia had 175 licensed industrial estates covering 98,235.5 hectares, with occupancy at 58.19%. (emitennews.com, hki-industrialestate.com) The government has already tried to shorten the gap between approval and construction. A 2025 Investment Ministry decree expanded the Direct Construction Facility, known as KLIK, to 32 industrial estates so companies can begin physical construction after an initial business license while other approvals continue in the Online Single Submission system. (sakalawfirm.com, bkpm.go.id) The Industry Ministry also issued Regulation No. 26 of 2025 on industrial-estate standards and accreditation, signed on July 16, 2025 and promulgated on July 23, 2025, to tighten rules on infrastructure, environmental management and estate services. (peraturan.go.id, kemenperin.go.id) HKI’s argument is that new rules and one-stop systems still do not solve field-level delays once a project moves from paper to construction. The group has said a cross-sector acceleration team should work as an operational problem-solver, not just another policy forum. (tribunnews.com, mediaindonesia.com) What happens next depends on whether the government gives the proposal formal backing and assigns agencies to clear specific blockages. Until that happens, Indonesia’s industrial-estate operators are warning that announced investment can still stall before a single plant starts running. (bisnis.com, kontan.co.id)
