State-owned electricity company PLN projects that the company’s coal-fired power plants will require some 100 million tons of coal this year,  a 5.4 percent increase from last year. PLN western region business director Djoko Rahardjo Abumanan said on Wednesday that more coal was needed this year because the company had started to operate more coal-fired power...

Indonesian coal production reached 456 million tons up to Thursday or 94.02 percent of this year’s total target of 485 million tons, according to Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry data, the Jakarta post reported. The ministry’s spokesperson, Agung Pribadi, estimated that this year’s production would exceed the target. According the Jakarta Post, he explained that...