Jakarta, March 22 -- President Prabowo Subianto emphasized that the Indonesian government continues to prioritize its industrial downstreaming program in its investment cooperation with the United States.

"We want raw materials to be processed locally. If they want to mine here, they have to process here," he said, as quoted in an official statement from the Indonesian Government Communications Agency in Jakarta on Sunday.

Prabowo stressed that openness to foreign capital must remain aligned with national interests. Despite ongoing discussions regarding tariff agreements with the United States, he said all investments must comply with Indonesia's existing natural resource management regulations.

Regarding the management of critical min...