REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MANILA -- The results of the Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) survey agency showed 52 percent of 800 CEOs of companies in Asia Pacific were interested in increasing its investment in Indonesia.

Head of Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), Franky Sibarani, stated Indonesia's position as an investment target was in the second highest after China. China got a response of 53 percent.

"52 percent of investors said they would increase its investment and 38 percent of them will keep the value of investment," said Franky, in Manila, Philippines, Thursday (19/11).

Franky said that Indonesia's current position was at the same level as the United States and Vietnam. In fact, Indonesia was in higher position than Singapore, which only got a response of 46 percent from world CEOs.

According to him, the survey results showed the company's CEOs of APEC countries still believed in Indonesia's conducive investment climate. He considered, CEO's confidence is very important since the flow of foreign capital into Asia Pacific is quite high.

Franky explained, the APEC CEO Summit meeting which took place in Manila, Philippines, Wednesday (18/11), Vice President Jusuf Kalla conveyed Indonesia's efforts to deregulate policy in order to create a conducive investment climate. Based on data from BKPM investment realization, in the last five years of the 20 top countries, APEC members contributed to 77.5 percent with an investment value of 76 billion US dollars.

The investment value of the APEC countries also increased from year to year. In 2010, the realization of APEC investment was 9.2 billion US dollars and it increased to 10.5 billion US dollars in 2011.

Later in 2012, the value of the investment increased to 12.8 billion US dollars and in 2013 it also increased to 16.1 billion US dollars. Meanwhile, in 2014 the value of investment was 15.1 billion US dollars and in 2015 until September, the realization of investment reached 11.9 billion US dollars.

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