Jakarta, Aug. 6 -- Indonesia's Foreign Ministry stated on Wednesday that African and South American countries are eager to emulate Indonesia's approaches to critical minerals downstreaming, which has proven to increase commodity values.

On the sidelines of the International Battery Summit here, Dindin Wahyudin, the ministry's expert staff on economic diplomacy, explained that critical mineral-producing countries in these regions are keen to learn "Indonesia's success in shifting from merely selling raw materials to increasing gains tenfold by processing them."

He stated that the interest from African and South American countries in Indonesia's downstreaming policies was evident from their participation in the Critical Mineral Producing ...