KPK’s intact supervision to help regulating mining sector By Thomas R. Sembiring & Donald Haromunthe Harsh criticism of the Corruption Eradication Comission (KPK) on the poor management of minerals and coal in Indonesia would likely to be continued. Performing its fourth of five main duties, (i.e to enhance any actions anticipating corruption), the national non-structural…
Vice Minister of Trade Dr. Bayu Krisnamurthi exposed his agenda to the press on Friday about going to Philippine next week on unspecified date aimed to discuss the added-value of mineral ores. “We haven’t figured on what this partnership is heading to. One thing is clear that we are going to encourage the mineral ores…
Thailand diversifies generation fuel on more coal Thailand will likely continue to rely on coal to fuel their expanding power plants over the next two decades. Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (known as EGAT) informed their electricity capacity target at 70,686 MW in 2030. As of the writing of this article, the installed capacity status…
It is widespread reported that following the issuance of Export Coal Trade Minister Regulation no 39/2014, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) will coordinate with the Ministry of Transportation (Ministry of Transportation) activities related to the establishment of special ports coal export commodities. Among other issues, this policy raise comments and response from coal…
ASEAN to continue rely on coal, seeks clean coal technology Thursday, September 04, 2014 – 08:08AM GMT+7 By Thomas Sembiring and Donald Haromunthe Member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will continue to rely on coal to fuel their expanding power plants over the next two decades, but are increasingly aware of…
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner.Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. Mining is required to…
The new Trade Ministry Regulation Number 39 Year 2014 recently introduced publicly raises criticisms among the coal miners. Coal mining big players such as IDX-listeds PT Adaro (ADRO) and PT Bukit Asam Tbk (PTBA) asked the government to review the regulation especially its implementation time. Those players’ request meet the likely unanimous opinions of most…
London-listed Asia Resource Minerals plc (ARMS) stated on Wednesday that the company had selected Barclays, Citigroup and Standard Chartered Bank as initial purchasers of the obligation launched by Berau Capital Resources II Pte. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of PT Berau Coal Energy Tbk (Berau). Optimistically, the best coupons will be released on August 21th…
