FAJAR.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Gerindra Party politician Arief Poyuono supports President Joko Widodo’s (Jokowi) move to ban coal exports.
Arief Poyuono even said that so far the funds from the sale of coal exports have only been kept abroad.
“It’s very appropriate that kangmas @jokowi prohibits coal exports, a lot of the proceeds from coal exports are stored abroad and finance political movements against kangmas jokowi…,” wrote Arief on his Twitter account @bumnbersatu, Monday (10/1/2021).
Prabowo Subianto’s subordinates also asked that domestic coal production should be purchased directly by the government.
“All coal is bought by the state… starting today using rupiah,” he said.
As is known, in early January, PT PLN experienced a coal crisis, 10 million PLN customers were threatened with power outages because 20 of PLN’s 20 steam power plants (PLTU) did not have a coal supply.
As a result, the government has temporarily banned exports through a letter from the Directorate General of Mineral and Coal (Ditjen Minerba) number B-1605/MB.05/DJB.B/2021 dated December 31, 2021. The ban was carried out on January 1 – January 31, 2022. this.
The export ban has an impact on a number of countries importing coal from Indonesia, such as Japan and South Korea. The two countries sent a letter to the government to re-open the faucet for coal exports. (msn/dawn)
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