Indonesia currently has 25 special economic zones (SEZs) across multiple provinces, but their combined land area remains far smaller than Malaysia’s, a senior government official said on Tuesday. According to Susiwijono Moegiarso, Secretary of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Indonesia’s total SEZ land area amounts to only around 20,900 hectares. Malaysia, he said, administers 2.1 million hectares of SEZs, meaning the neighbor’s capacity is almost 100 times larger. Even a single zone in Johor Bahru spans more than 350,000 hectares, making that one area alone roughly 18 times larger than all of Indonesia’s SEZs combined.
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