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 Province of Gorontalo is formed by Law No. 38 year 2000. This province is legitimated on 16 February 2001 as the 30th province of the Republic of Indonesia.
Gorontalo is a success province in agriculture sector development and competitive fishery sector. This province is potential for its economy development in various sectors such as agriculture, forestry, mining, and handy-craft.
Business development in this province is concentrated in development of agro-industry, food industry, horticulture industry, coconut oil, active carbon, corn, nata de coco, nata de Soya, cacao, and banana crisp. Potency of fishery and marine have only been exploited 27% so it is the right time to set up a business in fishing and fish processing industry (fish canning), and fish flour. Other interesting sector is animal husbandry, namely fattening and cow livestock, as well as chicken husbandry.
 Recently, industry sector especially small industry is also important. The attention to the small industry is understandable because of its infrastructure in supporting the industry development. Development of this industry is prioritized in line with regional government determination to open more the isolated regions. Other reason is because of that most of Gorontalo region are mountainous.
Meanwhile agriculture that gives contribution for Province of Gorontalo is fishery and food crop like corn. The regional economy growth has increased. This can be seen from GRDP in 2001 amounted Rp. 986,046 million with the highest contribution from agricultural sector 29.73%, services 18.02% and trade/hotel/ restaurant 16.08%.
The area of Gorontalo Province totalled 12,215.44 km2, spread between 00°24' 04"- 00 02' 30" North Latitude and 121° 08'04" - 123º 32'09" South Longitudinal.
Administratively, the government is divided into 2 Regencies and 1 Municipality, namely Regency of Gorontalo (5,411.38 km2), Regency of Boalemo (6,379.27 km2), and 1 City, namely Municipality of Gorontalo (64.79 km2).
The highest rainfall is between 49 and 268 mm yearly and average rainy day is 15 days. The temperature is between 30.4ºC and 34ºC, and during night is between 20.8ºC and 24.4ºC.
GROSS REGIONAL DOMESTIC PRODUCTS
In 2001, GRDP Province of Gorontalo totaled Rp 968,046 million at constant price. This means it has increased 0.49% compared with the figure in 2000 with the biggest contribution came from agriculture sector 29.73%, services 18.02%, and trade/hotel/restaurant 16.08%.
EXPORT-IMPORT
Export value in 2001 totaled US$ 3.22 million and this number has increased to US$ 8.49 million* in period of January until November 2002, meanwhile no import value.
* Number from Profile of Gorontalo Province
MINIMUM WAGE RATES
Minimum wage rate in 2001 was Rp. 20.000 daily or Rp.600.000,- monthly.
AGRICULTURE
The area of Province of Gorontalo is 1,221,544 ha. The agricultural potential area is 463,649.09 ha (37.95%) but only 148,312.78 ha (32%) has functioned or there is an opportunity for area development of 315,336.31 ha. The area of Regency of Gorontalo is 673,927 ha (55.17%) and Regency of Boalemo is 541,138 ha (44.30%). The most of agriculture area is used by people for paddy's field and unirrigated agriculture field with main plantation of paddy, corn, soybean, peanut, mung bean, and sweet potato.
PLANTATION
Plantation production in 2001 were coconut, clove, nutmeg, cacao, cassia Vera, coffee, vanilla, ginger, sugar cane, kapok, palm sugar, turmeric, and candlenut with the area of 83,702.60 Ha. The product totaled 415,909.93 Ton.
FISHERIES
There are four types of fishery potency with export quality, namely snapper, skipper, geropa, and laying with the potency of fish catching reached 82,220 tons yearly. Its production level reached 22,355 tons. Water territory (lake) reached 750 tons from potency of 900 tons yearly or 83%. Fishery cultivation which consisted of sea cultivation, fish pond, and freshwater has not optimally processed. Sea cultivation potency totaled 57,400 tons yearly with its new used level reached 2% (1,200 tons). Cultivation of fish pond has a production potency of 5,400 tons with its new used level reached 1% (56.9 tons). The potency of cultivation of freshwater (pond, wet rice field), its new production potency reached 655 tons yearly and its new used reached 26% (173.4 tons). Meanwhile, marine resources consisted of seaweed cultivation 2,450 Ha with its production reached 49,000 tons yearly.
FORESTRY
In forestry sector, Province of Gorontalo has the area of 826,378, consists of preservation forest and production forest. The area of unused forest is 550,000 ha. The prospective investment in forestry sector is teakwood development. Industrial potential opportunity is related with industry product processing, namely furniture industry with raw material of wood, rattan, and dammar. Forest area in Province of Gorontalo totaled 826,378.12 ha, consisted of preservation forest 20.03 % , wildlife reserve forest 23.91% , limited production forest 41.44%, and conversion production forest 2.44%.
MINING
In mining sector, Province of Gorontalo has mining ore and mineral that has high economy value such as gold, silver, copper, toseki granite, stone sand, zeolit, kaolin, quartz sand, feldspar, and clay. The biggest potency of mining ore is in Regency of Gorontalo and Boalemo.
(this information is taken from Wikipedia and BKPM).
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