Sumber: Bisnis.com | 20 November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Forum Industri Nikel Indonesia (FINI) mengungkap kekhawatiran terkait permintaan nikel yang rendah untuk baterai kendaraan listrik atau electric vehicle (EV) di tengah kondisi oversupply produksi smelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ketua Umum FINI Arif Perdanakusumah mengatakan, permintaan nikel untuk baterai sempat meningkat 10% pada 2020-2022. Namun, pertumbuhan permintaannya turun 1% per tahun sejak 2 tahun terakhir ini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Jadi perkiraan kami bahkan di tahun 2030 itu kebutuhan nikel untuk baterai tidak lebih dari 20% saja. Itu mungkin nantinya akan menjadi tantangan dan bahan diskusi dengan pemerintah terkait produk MHP kita ke depannya,\" kata Arif dalam Bisnis Indonesia Forum (BIF), Kamis (20\/11\/2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Produk nikel MHP atau mixed hydroxide precipitate merupakan bahan baku krusial dalam rantai pasok produksi baterai EV. MHP umumnya diproduksi dari hasil pengolahan nikel kadar rendah melalui teknologi high pressure acid leaching (HPAL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adapun, saat ini terdapat tiga smelter HPAL di Indonesia yang telah beroperasi dengan kapasitas terpasang mencapai 445.000 ton per tahun. Arif memproyeksi akan ada tambahan produk MHP sebanyak 30.000 ton dalam waktu dekat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dalam catatan Kementerian Investasi dan Hilirisasi\/BKPM, smelter HPAL tumbuh ekspansif di mana saat ini terdapat 22 fasilitas pemurnian yang tengah dalam tahap konstruksi. Dengan proyek tersebut, pada 2027, akan ada tambahan mencapai 450.000 ton atau dua kali lipat dari kapasitas saat ini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Jadi penambahannya kurang lebih dua kali lipat sehingga di akhir tahun 2027 ini perkiraan produk MHP yang akan dihasilkan oleh Indonesia itu sekitar 940.000,\" tuturnya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sementara itu, produksi nikel dari smelter rotary kiln electric furnace (RKEF) mencapai 2,5 juta ton dari total 170-an perusahaan smelter di Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di sisi lain, industri nikel juga menghadapi tantangan di mana adanya ketergantungan pada sektor stainless steel sebagai penyerap utama nikel. Terlebih, terdapat persaingan dengan teknologi baterai non-nikel atau lithium ferro-phosphate (LFP). \n\n\"Kemudian pertumbuhan ekonomi juga perang di Timur Tengah, kemudian Rusia-Ukraina dan lain sebagainya mengakibatkan permintaan nikel dunia menurun hingga terjadi oversupply dan tekanan harga,\" pungkasnya.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Source: Bisnis.com | November 20, 2025 The Indonesian Nickel Industry Forum (FINI) expressed concerns regarding low nickel demand for electric vehicle (EV) batteries amidst oversupply at smelters. FINI Chairman Arif Perdanakusumah stated that demand for nickel for batteries increased by 10% from 2020 to 2022. However, demand growth has declined by 1% per year over the past two years. “So, our estimate is that even by 2030, nickel demand for batteries will not exceed 20%. This will likely be a challenge and a topic for discussion with the government regarding our MHP products in the future,” Arif said at the Bisnis Indonesia Forum (BIF), Thursday (November 20, 2025). MHP, or mixed hydroxide precipitate, nickel products are a crucial raw material in the EV battery production supply chain. MHP is generally produced from low-grade nickel processing using high pressure acid leaching (HPAL) technology. Currently, there are three HPAL smelters operating in Indonesia with an installed annual capacity of 445,000 tons. Arif projects an additional 30,000 tons of MHP production in the near future. According to the Ministry of Investment and Downstream Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM), HPAL smelters are growing expansively, with 22 refining facilities currently under construction. With this project, by 2027, the production will reach 450,000 tons, doubling the current capacity. “So, the increase is approximately twofold, so by the end of 2027, Indonesia’s estimated MHP production will be around 940,000 tons,” he said. Meanwhile, nickel production from rotary kiln electric furnace (RKEF) smelters has reached 2.5 million tons from a total of around 170 smelter companies in Indonesia. On the other hand, the nickel industry also faces challenges due to its dependence on the stainless steel sector as the primary nickel supplier. Furthermore, there is competition from non-nickel battery technology, such as lithium ferrophosphate (LFP). “Furthermore, economic growth, war in the Middle East, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, among other factors, have led to a decline in global nickel demand, leading to oversupply and price pressure,” he concluded.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[96,97,143,270],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-ebt","tag-energi-baru-terbarukan","tag-nikel","tag-permintaan-pasar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7138,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bakrie-brothers.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}