Background

The government is encouraging the country’s coal miners to transform their coal business into downstream industry in a bid to help expand domestic demand for coal commodity and generating greater added value.

Currently, most of the country’s annual coal production is going export with only about 20 percent used in domestic market.

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Arifin Tasrif said that a number of technologies aimed to upgrade and process the country’s low rank coal reserve into products with greater added value are now economically feasible.

Mining Law No. 3/2020 requires the holders of production operation of IUPs/IUPKs are required to carry out domestic “Development and /or Utilization of Coal”, which is defined as increasing the quality of coal with or without changing the original physical or chemical nature of the coal.

Coal & Mineral Asia Magazine and Indonesian Mining and Energy Forum (IMEF) would jointly organize the webinar to discuss the future of coal downstream industry and impact to the country’s coal industry development.

The webinar would discuss

• Government policy on coal downstream industry and appetite for investment opportunities in Indonesia
• Law No 3/2020 on future of coal downstream industry and CCoW extension, in the form of continuation IUPKs for coal.
• Key project financing for coal downstream industry in Indonesia – Banking’s perspective.
• Who is investing and why? Investors’ perspective on the outlook for downstream industry.

Program