Indonesia's Widodo urges miners to move into processing

Creating downstream businesses seen as cure for chronic current-account deficit

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A worker watches as trucks carry nickel ore at a mine on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island: President Jokoko Widodo is urging the country's miners to move into higher value-added downstream businesses.

ERWIDA MAULIA, Nikkei staff writer

JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday renewed his call for the country's miners to move into processing, citing the need to curb imports to narrow its persistent current-account deficit.

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