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Gorontalo

Province Love Island in Gorontalo he province is located in northern Sulawesi Island, Gorontalo borders Central Sulawesi in the West, Basic Data Sulawesi Sea in the North, North Sulawesi in the TEast, and Tomini Gulf in the South. It is strategically located with close proximity to the Philippines. Gorontalo Capital: Gorontalo City with an area of 12.435 km2 consists of five regencies and one municipality, Gorontalo city, which also serves as its Major Cities: capital. Gorontalo City In developing its province, the government has set 2 the vision, which is to accelerate development in various Size of Province: 12.435 km fields and improve the economical equity in Gorontalo. In Population: its mission to realize this vision, the government focusses (1) Province : 1.133.237 inhabitants on improving the economy by optimizing the use of its (2) Province Capital : 202.202 inhabitants potential resources, encouraging investment, accelerating the development of rural infrastructure and improving its Salary (2018): human resources. The provincial monthly minimum wage : The province’s biggest economic sectors are USD 163,47. agriculture, forestry and fisheries, which accounts for around a third of GRDP. Rice and corn are the province’s primary products, with annual production of 401.746 tons and 643.512 tons respectively, while other important commodities are chilly with production of 8.238 tons as well as cacao and coconut with productions of 2.948 tons Educational Attainment and 54.739 tons respectively. The government is preparing DIPLOMA Undergraduate Postgraduate the province into an agricultural center, by developing 1,38% 2,37% 0,26% agribusiness, the agro industry for commodities such as VOCATIONAL nata de coco and coconut powder, and aiming to produce 1,59% Never attending million tons of corn. Moreover, in accordance with the school % local government’s long-term development plan 2007- 6,5 2025, Anggrek port in Gorontalo is being developed into SENIOR % an international cargo port to support the export of corn. 12,53 Furthermore, Gorontalo is producing 115.477 tons of Not graduated Junior from farmed fisheries and 92.171 tons of captured fisheries 12,05% Elementary annually. So far, the province has not been utilizing its 35,32% fisheries potential in Tomini Gulf, Sulawesi Sea, and the Sulawesi Sea Exclusive Economic Zone to the fullest. The government is also developing seaweed-related pilot Elementary % project in Pohuwanto. Most of the seaweed farmed in 28 Gorontalo is originated from class of eucheuma cottonii, with potential production of 99.454,4 tons. Seaweed harvests are largely processed at local processing plants before being exported to Jakarta, Malaysia and Korea.

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Finally, the province has reserves of gold ore and Subsistence/common vocation copper. According to one major mining company in of Population Indonesia, Gorontalo has 292 million tons of gold and copper ores deposits. 1,37% MINING ECONOMY 90,19% Average economic growth of provinces on Sulawesi 1,66% Trading, Hotel and Island was around 8,21% in 2015. Gorontalo’s economic Agriculture, Restaurant Veterinary, % SERVICES growth of 6,23%, eventhough higher than the national Forestry & 6,78 growth rate, was below the regional average and its Fishery National Medium Term Development Plan 2015-2019 target of 6,7-8,9%. The agriculture sector contributed more than 37% to GRDP, followed by construction (12%), and retail (11%). Despite global economic slow-down, the construction sector grew quickly in 2015 at 9,77%, due to the INVESTMENT development of several multi-year government projects. During 2016, the largest FDI were contributed by Around two-third of the construction projects were civil agriculture sector with USD 3,29 million, followed by hotels engineering projects. On average, the manufacturing and restaurants with USD 3,08 million, and electricity, gas sector contributed around 4% to GRDP between 2011 and and water with USD 2,04 million. 2015. The biggest sub-sector contribution in 2015 came In 2016, a humongous investment of USD 158,35 million from the food and beverage industry with 2,72%, followed was made in the electricity, gas and water sector as part by the wood industry with 0,49%. The manufacturing of the government’s development plan. Thus, it brought sector experienced a down-turn just as the global a great effect to the domestic investment in the province. economy. In 2015, the sector’s growth was only 4,66%, while it was 8,18% in 2012. The province contributed 0,24% to Indonesian GDP in 2015. Investment Realisation Economic Growth (2014-2016) 200

Year Description 150 *) 2014 2015 2016 DDI Economic Growth of Province 7,27 6,23 6,52 FDI 100 National Economic Growth 5,01 4,88 5,02 *) estimated 50 Between 2014 and 2015, Gorontalo’s export increased by 108,66% to USD 31,4 million. In 2015, 95,08% of these exports were destined to the Philippines. Gorontalo’s main export commodity is corn, which accounted for (mio USD) 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 85,25% of total export that year. In the same time, DDI 12,22 6 3,34 7 163,15 Gorontalo’s imports increased by 94,42% to USD 100 FDI 35,31 25,70 4,09 6,92 12,68 million, due to the import of machineries, which is in line with the great investments in the road infrastructure Total 47,53 31,70 7,43 13,92 175,83 and a steam power plant in Paguat. Most of the imported goods were originated from USA, China, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, and Malaysia. Economic Resources In 2015, average monthly expenditures per capita were USD 49,4, which were divided into 48,92% for food Commodities Outlook and 51,08% for non-food expenditures. The largest Agriculture food expenditure was consistently spent on processed food, while housing, considerably the main non-food Food Crops & Plantation expenditure, was spent throughout the years. The share of housing expenditure increased from 36,5% back in 2013 Fishery to 47,7% in 2015. Provincial government expenditures in 2015 were USD Mining 104,3 million, up from USD 89,2 million in the previous year. Operation expenditures were USD 68,2 million, Construction and capital expenditures were USD 25,5 million. In 2014, operation and capital expenditures were USD 63,6 million and USD 17,2 million respectively.

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Sulawesi Sea

West Nusa Tenggara Province Central Sulawesi Province

Anggrek Port

North Sulawesi Province

Jalaludin Airport GORONTALO

Gorontalo Seaport Capital City City

Main bridge Tomini Strait Toll road National road International Airport Medium road Domestic Airport Small road International Port Existing Industrial Estate Railroad Domestic Port / Harbour Industrial Estate in Development

EXISTING INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

N/A

DEVELOPING INDUSTRIAL ESTATE

N/A

LAND ROAD

1.391,231 km Passenger boarding aircraft in Djalaluddin airport SEAPORT

5 (Gorontalo, Anggrek, Kwandang, Tilamuta, Bumbulan seaport). Total export volume from both Anggrek and Gorontalo seaports was 144.429,8 tons in 2015.

AIRPORT

2 (Djalaluddin airport and Pohuwato). In 2015, 2.451 flights made via Djalaluddin airport.

TRAIN SYSTEM Start of railway construction between Gorontalo and Bitung in 2017 A cargo ship sailing from Gorontalo port

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Ferry boat to Togian islands leaving from Gorontalo to Wakai

A view of Limboto Lake in dusk Rice and corn are the province’s primary products

DEVELOPMENT PLAN Bumbulan, and Gorontalo Port. 1. Development of connecting road between Manado 8. Development of Gorontalo Outer Ring Road. and Gorontalo. 9. Development of a gas power plant in Gorontalo Peaker 2. Construction of Bonehulu Dam. (100MW). 3. Construction of Bolangohulu Dam. 10. Development of a steam power plant in Sulbagut 4. Development of Djajaludin Airport. (150MW). 5. Development of railways between Isimu-, Gorontalo 11. Development of a steam power plant in Sulbagut city, Taludaa, Molibagu, Tutuyan, Belang, Kema and (350MW). Bitung. 12. Development of renewable energy and geothermal 6. Construction of Pohuwato Airport. potentials. 7. Development of Anggrek, Kwandang, Tilamuta, 13. Development of salt industrial zone. 14. Cultivation of organic rice. 15. Development of sustainable cocoa plantations. STRENGTH 16. Development of seaweed industry. 17. Development of corn production facilities. 18. Development of packaging canning Industry, fish 1. Close proximity to the Philippines has increased meal, animal food and fish waste. the international trade of the province. 19. Development of beach and islands tourism. 2. The fertile land of the province is suitable for 20. Development of tourism industry in Saronde Island, the agriculture industry, especially for rice and Bolohutuo Island, and Mohupomba Island Tourism. corn. 3. The province has a flourishing fisheries and seaweed industry. 4. The sugar (palm and refined sugar) industry in Gorontalo is still growing. CONTACT 5. Based on its proximity, Gorontalo, together with Central Sulawesi, Maluku, North Maluku, and East Kalimantan, is located on the central point Dinas Penanaman Modal, ESDM dan Transmigrasi of the area with abundant natural resources. Provinsi Gorontalo Jl. Tengah Desa Toto Selatan Kec. Kabila Kabupaten Bone Bolango, Gorontalo, INDONESIA Phone : +62 (435) 8591277 Fax. : +62 (435) 8591278 E-mail : [email protected] Website : www.gorontaloprov.go.id

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