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RI considers revoking bauxite export ban
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This picture taken in Kendawangan, West Kalimantan on Feb. 13, 2017, shows a truck next to piles of bauxite at Harita Group's bauxite mine. (AFP/Adek Berry)
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he Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry is mulling over a plan to again allow bauxite ore exports following a call from the House of Representatives to repeal a ban on shipments as part of a larger effort to improve the economic development of bauxite-mining regions.
Maman Abdurrahman, deputy chair of House Commission VII overseeing energy and mineral resources, said during a hearing broadcast live on Monday that the House “strongly encourages” the energy minister to revoke the rule, suggesting that the ministry instead rely on limited export quotas.
Energy ministry spokesperson Agus Cahyono Adi said the ministry would follow up with lawmakers’ suggestion to reassess the policy.
“It is true [that the energy ministry] will carry out inter-ministerial studies and coordination,” he said on Tuesday, as reported by Bisnis.
Read also: Bauxite miners ask for leeway amid export ban
The government banned exports of bauxite and copper in June 2023 following a similar policy imposed on nickel mining firms in early 2020.
In the case of bauxite, the government would like for more of the commodity to be domestically processed into alumina, which is the core raw material for aluminum.
