Indonesia Lawmakers Call for Tougher Rules to Avert Another Coal Crisis

Sumber: Reuters | Editor: Anastasia Lilin Yuliantina

KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. Indonesian legislators on Tuesday pressed the government to tighten rules on domestic coal sales, amid concern that miners will choose to pay fines instead of meeting a requirement to sell a quarter of their output to local power generators.

The parliamentary energy committee met during recess on Tuesday, fearing the world's biggest thermal coal exporter was headed for a repeat of a domestic supply crisis late last year that saw exports banned for a few weeks in January, triggering panic among foreign buyers.