Indonesia Coal News
News, analysis and current information on Coal in Indonesia for investors and industry professionals.
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Indonesia's Coal DMO: The 25% Obligation, the US$70 Price Cap and the RKAB Link
Indonesia requires every coal producer to sell at least 25% of its planned output into the domestic market, and caps the price the power sector pays at US$70 a tonne. In 2025 the domestic share reached 32%, or 254 million tonnes, while the government moved to cut national output for 2026 from 790 million tonnes to about 600 million. Here is how the DMO works, how the ministry measures it against the approved RKAB, and what it means for a miner's economics and an offtaker's supply.
Mining Equipment Suppliers in Indonesia: The Supply Chain Is Moving Onshore
In ten weeks of 2026, XCMG broke ground on Indonesia's first overseas remanufacturing base for mining components, LiuGong began building an electric heavy equipment plant in West Java, and Komatsu expanded its Bekasi factory. What the localisation of Indonesia's mining equipment supply chain means for an operator mobilising a fleet — and what no source yet states.
Indonesia's Coal Exports: the Value Is Rising, the Tonnage Is Not, and the Door Is Narrowing
Coal export value reached US$18.11 billion in January–July 2026, up 8.36 percent year on year, while August shipments fell 23 percent to the weakest August in five years. Indonesia is now managing coal as an export, not merely selling it: ESDM's own data puts 63.82 percent of first-half output into export allocation, and the single-door export system — coal, palm oil and ferroalloys — is due to be fully in force by the end of December 2026.
Indonesia Mining Royalties: How PNBP Is Built, and Why State Revenue Can Rise as Output Falls
A mining royalty in Indonesia is not a tax code of its own — it is one of five groups of non-tax state revenue at the energy ministry, and the current rulebook is Government Regulation No. 19 of 2025. Here is how the charge is structured, what the state says it collected in 2025 and 2026, and why the government's own account has receipts climbing while coal output falls.
RKAB Indonesia: The Annual Plan That Sets How Much a Mine May Produce
A mining licence in Indonesia decides where you may work. The RKAB decides how much you may produce, where inside that licence, and on what budget — for one year at a time, and only once the ministry approves it. Here is the instrument, its deadlines, and what the rules do to a holder that works without one.
Indonesia Mining Companies: the State Holding, Its Members and the Foreign Operators
USGS lists five companies inside MIND ID, the state mining holding, while MIND ID's own site now shows six members holding stakes from 34% to 100%. Here is who owns what, what each company produces, and how the foreign-owned operators fit alongside them.
Coal Mining in Indonesia: Output, Exports and the Quota Policy Reshaping Production
Indonesia is the world's largest thermal coal exporter, and it is now deliberately producing less. Here is the data behind the shift, and what the RKAB quota policy means for coal permit holders.
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