en.Wedoany.com Reported - Rachmat Pambudy, Indonesia's Minister of National Development Planning, stated in Batam on May 28 that he hopes the wind energy project will bring economic and investment benefits. On the same day, he attended the inauguration ceremony of the Cakrawala and Nusantara buildings of PT. McDermott Indonesia alongside Ansar Ahmad, Governor of the Riau Islands Province.
These two buildings, developed by PT. McDermott Indonesia, are designed to support Indonesia's first wind energy project—the Tennet 2-gigawatt high-voltage direct current transmission project. This facility is also a key component of Indonesia's efforts to build a globally competitive sustainable energy industry.
Governor Ansar Ahmad stated that the project will solidify Batam's position as a center for Indonesia's manufacturing and energy industries, making it a region with a globally competitive sustainable energy industry supply chain. He added that since pioneering the field in the 1970s, McDermott has grown from an initial 8-hectare site to a 110-hectare offshore manufacturing giant, serving as a pioneering pillar of Southeast Asia's maritime manufacturing industry for over 50 years.
Speaking about the newly completed facilities, Governor Ansar Ahmad noted that the Cakrawala building is a block assembly plant equipped with a climate control system, while the Nusantara building is a sandblasting and painting plant, with a total investment of $240 million (approximately IDR 4 trillion). He stated that the project has dual benefits: on one hand, it provided construction employment opportunities for 7,000 local workers; on the other hand, all structural planning work was carried out by local young engineers. Additionally, the project has driven economic development in the Riau Islands Province, enabling the province to achieve an economic growth rate of 7.04% in the first quarter of 2026.
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