Japan requests Indonesia remove coal export ban immediately
A barge transporting coal from Indonesia’s East Kalimantan to Japan. (Image from archives.)
Japan has requested Indonesia immediately remove its export ban on shipments of high grade coal and asked that five loaded vessels be given departure permits, its Jakarta embassy said in a letter to Indonesian authorities.
The world’s largest thermal coal exporter banned outbound shipments from Saturday to avoid power outages at local generators.
The letter, dated Jan. 4 and verified by the embassy on Wednesday, noted that Japan mainly imported high caloric coals which are not used by Indonesian power plants.
(By Stanley Widianto and Fransiska Nangoy; Editing by Louise Heavens)
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