Plan of Regional Development.

Growth areas those have potencies for an accelerating speed of economic growth. They have many types of prime sectors that can acquire bigger investment and they have regional synergistic or international interconnections. There are five prime growth areas in Central Kalimantan such as Pangkalan Bun, Sampit, Integrated Area Development of Kahayan-Kapuas-Barito Watershed, Buntok and Muara Teweh.  (see the map).

People Economic Development.

Main natural resources in Central Kalimantan is agribusiness components of people, land, forest, water, bio-diversity and others. Some number of small, medium and cooperative business are in act. The situation leads for the government to gain some efforts in maximizing the agribusiness for people in the growth areas.

Three of the most prominent issues of the human resources development for agribusiness are the efforts to stimulate capability of local people to have science and technologies, entrepreneurship spirit and team work.

Investment opportunities for the food crops are availability of land for farming of  about 2,124,626 hectares in the districts of the province. However, the infrastructures such as transportation and others have not fully supported this type of investment. The current effort of government is to build several road segments and giant bridges to cross at least 11 big rivers in the province.

The area of savanna for about 4,273,300 hectares are inferred to suit for developing large scale livestock. The present livestock in the province covers the cows, goats, pigs, buffalos and fowls. The opportunities of investment can be made for developing them in to the more modern type of livestock management.

The large size of fresh water and marine areas in the province provides several opportunities for developing modern fishery such as crabs, shrimp, large prawn, lobster, freshwater turtle, betutu fish, botia fish, and exoticf fishes. The low pollutants in the fishery areas may give a gain for a more natural fishery. The freshwater areas cover the lakes and swamps cover an area of 2,293,633 hectares within the fish potency inferred for 130,000 tones per year. Potency of the freshwater turtles  is about a half million of turtles per year that is being exploited for about 20% for exports. The exotic fish of Botia has a potency for about 1.5 millions each year that is being exploited only for about 36%. The tidal areas cover about 84,400 hectares in the 750 kilometers of the province's shorelines. It covers area of mangrove forest for 52,000 hectares and the mouth of 12 big rivers in the area. The existing fish pond  is only about 1,250 hectares of that is people fish pond for 1,200 hectares and company for 50 hectares. The fish pond area development is allocated for a size of 5,000 hectares. This is mainly suitable for shrimp, crabs, fresh water turtle, and exotic fishes.

By the year of 1984 has been developed a master plan of plantation areas. The area is provided for 3,139,500 hectares or about 20.4% of the province's area. The plantation commodities cover coconut, oil palm tree, pepper, cocoa, rubber and others. The land suitability of the province is mainly for the plantation activities. In 1993 the government of province has produced the Spatial Structure Plan in which the plantation areas cover 1,700,000 hectares. Based on the statistical data of 2002 the area has utilized for 677,684 hectares or 21.58%. The oil palm trees dominate for 252,625 hectares or 37.3%. This is the second commodity after rubber. The gross production of  the oil palm is 813,793 tones of fruits or equal to 162,759 tones crude palm oil and 28,483 tones net fruits. Both of products are exported to Java and Sumatera island for providing the factory of fried oil and others. There are 15 existing oil palm processing factories in the province itself. Those factories and the local government must develop several numbers of supporting facilities such as roads, harbors, waste recycling, transport vehicles and others.

Forest areas based on the Spatial Structure Plan of 1999 covers 13,049,045 hectares. They are allocated for protection forest of 1,120,893 hectares, cultivation areas for 11,928,152 hectares. The investment opportunities for the forestry sector come from the rattan, resin, wood shell, bird nests and waste of forest exploitation. For the yearly waste of forest exploitation is predicted for 720,000 cubic meters and from wood industries for 400,000 cubic meters. There is also exist many areas for forest replanting of timber estates for about 119,600 hectares.

Core problem of the province is that the province exist in the third biggest area of Indonesian's province. It has a low density and sparsely distribution of population. But, in the long term of the development in Indonesia, the province has got experiences of massive capital outflow. There is only very small number of facilities in existence for taking care the investments in the long term basis. Factories those can provide local or regional economic multiplier effects almost in all do not exist. This province is only capable of becoming the raw materials suppliers for the rest.

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