Saudi utility giant Acwa to develop $400 million desalination facility in Indonesia
JAKARTA: Saudi utility developer Acwa has announced that it will set up a $400 million integrated facility for seawater desalination and salt production in Indonesia’s East Java, with Jakarta eyeing tech upgrades and knowledge transfer through its latest collaboration with the Kingdom.
Acwa and Indonesia’s state-owned salt company Garam signed a joint development agreement in Jakarta on Wednesday, under which they will build a seawater reverse-osmosis plant combined with a salt production line in the industrial area of Manyar, Gresik.
The facility is expected to produce around 62,500 cubic meters of desalinated water per day and 500,000 tonnes of high-purity industrial salt annually.
The agreement “strengthens Indonesia’s efforts to reinforce water security and achieve self-sufficiency for industrial salt,” Rosan Roeslani, Indonesia’s investment minister and CEO of sovereign wealth fund Danantara, wrote on social media after attending the signing ceremony.
