Indonesia’s Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has temporarily banned coal exports from January 1 to 31, 2022, to ensure the availability of coal stocks for domestic power plants.
The export ban is aimed at the holders of mining business permits (IUPs) and coal mine company work contracts (PKP2Bs), Director Ggeneral of Mineral and Coal at the ministry Ridwan Jamaludin informed in a statement here on Saturday. Declining coal supply could affect more than 10 million customers of state-run electric company PT PLN (Persero), he explained.
This figue constitutes both the general public and the industry, he elaborated. If the export ban is not enforced, it could cause an outage at 20 coal-fired power stations generating 10.850 megawatts of power, he said. —Antara News
