REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Investment outside Java between January and March 2016 showed an increase compared to that recorded in the same period in 2015, according to the Capital Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM).

BKPM Head Franky Sibarani remarked that investment outside Java in the first three months of 2016, which stood at Rp65.8 trillion, accounted for 44.9 percent of the total investment in the country during the same period.

In 2015, the investment outside Java in the first three months was recorded at 43.9 percent of the total investment in the same period.

"The rise in investment outside Java also led to an increase in the number of workers," Franky noted at an expo on Indonesian investment in Jakarta on Monday.

During the three-month period in 2016, the number of workers absorbed due to an increase in investment was recorded at 327,170, of which those from outside Java increased by 17.1 percent to 146,320 as compared to that in the corresponding period in 2015. In Java, the number of workers declined by five percent to 180,850, with an investment of Rp80.7 trillion.

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