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Indonesia has entire country's resources and the will to do it. Why is Indonesia a raw material exporter? If it's so easy Indonesia should be exporting finished stainless steel, semiconductor wafers, purified metal, etc.
Indonesia's economy isn't clean. It exports coal, palm oil and petroleum. These kill the environment to mine and kill the environment to farm.
Here's the economic sophistication of Indonesia: almost entirely a primitive raw materials economy. going by rank it is about the same as sub-Saharan African countries like Estawani and oil states like UAE.
Contrast to China which is ranked about the same as Israel and France.
US probably can do it after a few years and spending tens of billions. This is why it isn't easy - nothing that costs billions of dollars is easy. If it was, it wouldn't cost billions.
You should looking at data not by feeling gut moments when make comments
https://theinsiderstories.com/indonesian-steel-export-rose-28-86-to-us29b-in-september/
https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/idn/all/show/2018/
Indonesia raw mineral and oil export actually much smaller compared to her manufacturing export