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 The strategic location of the West Kalimantan Province has placed it on the various form of economic cooperation, both bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
Many formal organizations of cooperation relationship between the West Kalimantan province and many other countries are among others the Indonesia-Malaysia Economy and Social (Sosek Malindo), regarding traffic cooperation on goods and services between the West Kalimantan province and Sarawak (East Malaysia), and Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) that aims to accelerate the growth rate of private sectors in encouraging economic development and increasing competitiveness and attractiveness of their resources to the local and foreign investors.
The other organizations are Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore Growth Triangle (IMS-GT) which proposed to increase the economic cooperation of business communities among the third countries in facing globalization era, and Australia-Indonesia Development Area (AIDA) that aims to increase the growth rate of economy, trade and investment.
In 1998 and 1999, the agriculture sectors played an important role to the economy of the West Kalimantan, by contributing 26.4% to the regional domestic product. However, in 2000, this role has slightly decreased to become 25.7%. Nevertheless, it has been kept in balance by the increasing contribution of other sectors such as 23.7% industrial sector and 21.2% trade, hotel and restaurant.
This development has shown that the economy of the West Kalimantan has grown dynamically in the latest years. This fact reflects on its economic growth rate which had reached 2.71% in 1999, 2.95% in 2000 and 4.74% in 2001. In order to continuously accelerate its growth, the regional government always sets every effort to create favorable investment climate to the investors.
Therefore, supported by the regional autonomy spirit, the government of West Kalimantan continuously sets more security, political and social stability, through equally distributed development to its all regions.
The province of West Kalimantan lies between Latitudes 2°08&The government administration is divided into 8 regencies and 2 cities: the regencies of Pontianak, Landak, Bengkayang, Sambas, Sanggau, Sintang, Kapuas Hulu, Ketapang, and the cities of Pontianak and Singkawang.
Ketapang regency has the largest area (35,809 Km²).
GROSS REGIONAL DOMESTIC PRODUCTS
In 2000, the GRDP of the West Kalimantan province was Rp 17,968,16 billion. The agriculture sector shared the highest part by 25.8% of the total GRDP; followed by industrial sector (23.7%) and trade, restaurant and hotel (21.2%). Compared with that in 1999, the agriculture contribution to the GRDP decreased to 25.8% from 26.4%.
ECONOMIC GROWTH
In 2000, the economic growth was 2.95% and increased up to 4.74% in 2001.
EXPORT-IMPORT
The export value in 2000 achieved US$ 416,223 million. Its biggest value mainly came from the port of Pontianak, reached US$ 378,567 million with industrial and agricultural products as its main commodities. While the import value attained at US$ 108.750 million. The import commodities mainly consisted of foods, capital goods and industrial products as well as lots of raw materials of various industrial necessities.
MINIMUM WAGE RATES
In 2001, the minimum wage rate ranged between Rp 304,500/month - Rp 340,000/month, depending on the business sectors.
AGRICULTURE
In 2000, the harvest area of food crops excluding rice plant was not less than 37,719 ha, comprising of horticulture, cassava, peanut and soybean. The available area that can be cultivated by the food crops and horticulture was 82,925 Ha.
PLANTATION
The area of plantation was 484,777 ha, consisting of 285,642 ha rubber plant, 5,585 ha coconut, 189,998 ha palm oil, 1,764 ha cocoa and 1,788 ha pepper. While the potential area that can still be utilized was 5,251,700 Ha.
FISHERIES
The total production of fisheries was 176,924 ton in 2000, producing 63,899 ton marine fisheries and 113,025 ton fresh water/brackish fisheries and other cultivation products. The potential production of marine fisheries was estimated to be 485,000 ton/year, while the potential sea fish cultivation was 41,950 Ha.
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
In 2000, the livestock population was consisted of 151,598 cows, 6,194 buffaloes, 323,853 pigs and 117,799 goats. The number of beef cattle needed per year reached 32,000 in which a number of 14,000 (43%) was still brought from the outside West Kalimantan. The area reserved to the development of husbandry was 1,783,400 Ha.
FORESTRY
The forest area of the West Kalimantan province is 8.96 million ha, provides 1.25 million national park, 153 thousand ha nature preserve, 29 thousand ha natural tourism park, 22 thousand ha sea natural conservation, 4.66 million ha production forest, 514 thousand ha conversion forest, and 2.35 million ha protected forest.
MINING
The west Kalimantan region is rich for mineral deposits that have not been optimally exploited such as bauxite, granite, quartz sand, kaolin, coal, gold, diamond, silver, fuel oil and natural gas as well as turf/peat moss.
(this information is taken from Wikipedia and BKPM).
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