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Economy in brief: Rising coal price puts Indika back in black

Publicly listed coal mining company Indika Energy is back in the black, after being in the red throughout 2016

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Sat, April 29, 2017

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Economy in brief: Rising coal price puts Indika back in black

Publicly listed coal mining company Indika Energy is back in the black, after being in the red throughout 2016.

It recorded a consolidated operating profit of US$8.5 million in the first quarter of 2017, marking a turnaround from a loss of $6.4 million in same period last year.

The income recovery was supported by an increase in first-quarter revenue to $222.5 million, up 14 percent from $195.1 million in the same period of last year, Indika Energy director Azis Armand said on Thursday.

“The revenue increase was supported by the increase of the global coal price, which stood at $80.1 per ton in March,” Azis said, adding that a reduction in the company’s general and administrative expenses by 28 percent to $19.7 million from $27.3 million in the same period of last year had also contributed to the positive result.

Twenty-seven percent of the revenue came from coal trading, 31.6 percent from its oil and gas engineering, procurement and construction subsidiary Tripatra, 26.3 percent from publicly listed miner Petrosea, and 7 percent from coal shipping company Mitrabahtera Segara Sejati (MBSS).

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