Revealed: Basic Metals and Data Centres Are Indonesia’s Top Foreign Investment Picks

The Ministry of Investment and Downstreaming/Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) recorded Indonesian investment of Rp528.7 trillion in the third quarter of 2026, up 7.6% year on year compared with the same period last year.

According to BKPM data, five subsectors recorded the highest investment in the third quarter of 2026. Basic metals and fabricated metal products, excluding machinery and equipment, led domestic and foreign investment combined, attracting Rp118.8 trillion, or 22.5% of the total.

Other services, including data centres, ranked second with investment of Rp81.8 trillion, or 15.5%. Transport, warehousing and telecommunications followed with Rp51.7 trillion, or 9.8%; mining with Rp38.7 trillion, or 7.3%; and the food industry with Rp34.7 trillion, or 6.6%.

The five leading subsectors differed when investment was broken down by source—domestic or foreign—in the third quarter of 2026.

Transport, warehousing and telecommunications recorded the largest domestic investment, at Rp43.3 trillion, or 16.8%. Other services ranked second at Rp37.6 trillion, or 14.6%, followed by mining at Rp32.8 trillion, or 12.7%; housing, industrial estates and offices at Rp25.1 trillion, or 9.7%; and the food industry at Rp22.4 trillion, or 8.7%.

Basic metals and fabricated metal products, excluding machinery and equipment, attracted the most foreign investment, at Rp111.6 trillion, or 41.3%.

Other services ranked second with Rp44.1 trillion, or 16.3%, followed by the chemical and pharmaceutical industries at Rp17.4 trillion, or 6.4%; the food industry at Rp12.3 trillion, or 4.5%; and housing, industrial estates and offices at Rp9.5 trillion, or 3.5%.

Total investment reached Rp528.7 trillion in the third quarter of 2026, comprising Rp270.2 trillion in foreign investment and Rp258.5 trillion in domestic investment.