Jakarta, Feb. 8 -- President Prabowo Subianto has highlighted efforts to boost industrialization and develop the national housing sector as among the government's priority avenues for expanding employment opportunities for Indonesians across the country.

In a video broadcast by the Presidential Secretariat in Jakarta, Prabowo affirmed that the government is strongly determined to revive national industries during the remaining years of his tenure.

"We are determined to increase job opportunities for the Indonesian people. The government will spearhead the nation's industrialization over the next two to three years," he said in Malang, East Java, on Sunday.

Speaking before more than 1,000 attendees at the centenary celebration of one of...