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Uncertainty continues over Indonesia's export coal ban

One week or one month: uncertainty continued on Thursday as Indonesian authorities postponed a scheduled meeting with local coal companies over the government's ban on thermal-coal exports, a move aimed at shoring up fuel supplies at the country's key thermal-power plants.

Robin Bromby
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The move, aimed at averting blackouts in Indonesia, also sent East Asia coal prices surging, Indonesia being the world's largest exporter of thermal coal. It also triggered speculation that China might...

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