Jakarta-The Government finally published the relevant regulatory obligation to increase the added value of minerals through the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources No. 7 of 2012 on Improving the Value Added Mineral Processing and Purification through Mineral Activities.

Regulation of the Minister's article mentions, mineral commodity groups which can be increased value added consists of metallic minerals, nonmetallic minerals, or rocks.

"With abundant mineral wealth, efforts to increase the added value of the mineral mining industry requires a smelter at the most. If the smelter industry likely to grow and develop Indonesia into a large country which can export the processed mine so much," said Vice Chairman Chamber of Commerce, Distribution, and Logistics, Natsir Mansyur, on Monday (2/13/2012) in Jakarta.

That many of the smelter, said Natsir, expected to receive and process the results of mining in Indonesia. Therefore, the potential mineral resources are abundant, the application of the Act Petambangan Mineral and Coal (Mining) followed Candies ESDM No. 7 of 2012 is appropriate to support the program hilirisasi mining industry, given Indonesia's exports are still dominated by the mining of semi-finished .

"With this program hilirisasi mining industry is strengthened by the Chewing EMR is appropriate, but there are some things that need attention from the government, including the synergy between the Ministry of bottlenecking for entrepreneurs interested in building a smelter," said Natsir, who is also President Director of PT Indosmelt .