Indonesia starts to build world's largest copper smelter

President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo attends the groundbreaking ceremony for Freeport Indonesia's copper smelter in Gresik, East Java, on Oct. 12, 2021.(BPMI Setpres/Lukas)

JAKARTA (Xinhua): Indonesia will have the world's largest smelter with a capacity of 1.7 million tonnes of copper concentrate per year, President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday (Oct 12).

The groundbreaking for the construction of the smelter owned by PT Freeport Indonesia with a single line design was carried out Tuesday on an area of 103 hectares in the Java Integrated Industrial and Port Estate in East Java province's district of Gresik.