REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesia officially announces that the country will be no longer import salt for consumption on 2013. The calculation on Director General of Marine Coastal and Small Islands at the Ministries of Marine Affairs and Fisheries predicts that Indonesia will have the surplus of 600,000 tonnes of salt for consumption next year.

Indonesian salt production from August to November 2012, which is about 2.2 million tonnes, is enough to fulfill the local need of 1.6 million tonnes. Salt demand predictably increases every year by 200,000 tonnes.

Director of Coastal Community Empowerment and Business Development, Ansori Zawawi, said that the 2.2 million tonnes salt was generated from local salt production and remaining salt import in 2011. The surplus is expected to be cultivated to become industrial salt.

Meanwhile, Director General of Marine Coastal and Small Islands, Sudirman Saad, said Indonesia would develop industrial salt soon. Indonesia needs at least 1.8 million tonnes industrial salt. Until today, the entire need is still imported.

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