Jakarta, Oct. 12 -- Indonesia's Trade Minister Budi Santoso on Friday called on developing countries to accelerate sustainable industrialisation by prioritising three key areas of development.

Speaking at the second session of the G20 Trade and Investment Ministerial Meeting (TIMM) in Gqeberha, South Africa, Santoso said the first priority was to strengthen and utilise productive capacity to drive transformation toward high value-added, science-based industries.

"The second is to move up the global value chain by expanding the manufacturing base in strategic sectors such as semiconductors, electric vehicle batteries, and pharmaceuticals," he said in a written statement released on Saturday.

The third priority, he added, is to build gre...