The nickel SEZ at Weda Bay alone created eighty,000 direct jobs and 12,000 oblique jobs—more jobs than PNG’s whole mining and petroleum industries mixed. In 2022, funding in downstream mining surged to virtually US$9.2 billion, in comparison with US$4.1 billion in 2019,” Maru famous, emphasising the significant role these investments have performed in Indonesia’s mining industry. The Indonesian Government has really helpful Business News that PNG adopt an analogous strategy and implement a ban on raw material exports. “Our government has already declared its intention to pursue downstream processing, and we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Indonesia is correct …