Sudiana said that feasibility study would consist of consideration to produce the type of ships and the number of ships to be built in the shipyard. According to Iperindo's analyses, the Indonesian shipyard industry needs an additional investment of 28.5 trillion rupiah (about $2.85 billion) to increase its production capacity up to 2.5 million gt in the next five years.
Citing the initial study carried out by Iperindo and the Industrial ministry, to cope with domestic needs Indonesian shipyard industry needs to improve production capacity by 500,000gt with total investment of 5.7 trillion rupiah ($573.8 million) a year.
Currently, national installed capacity for construction of new ships was only at 225,000gt.