Jakarta, June 18 -- The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has opened investment opportunities for the development of the National Salt Industry Center (K-SIGN) in Rote Ndao District, East Nusa Tenggara Province.

"This area will serve as a model for the development of the national salt industry to support the goal of achieving salt self-sufficiency by 2027, as mandated by Presidential Regulation No. 17 of 2025," Director-General of Marine Affairs Management at KKP, Koswara, stated in Jakarta on Wednesday.

With over 10,000 hectares of land and an ideal climate that features six to seven months of dry season annually, Rote Ndao is considered to have geographical characteristics similar to those of Dampier, Australia.

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