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View all search resultsThe government’s 2019 fiscal position stands in stark contrast with that of the preceding year amid weak global commodity prices and a slowdown in global trade, which contributed to disappointing tax revenue and a wider fiscal deficit.
Indonesian mining contracts and licenses — the documents detailing the government’s agreements with companies for the exploitation of minerals — remain out of public view despite legislation and court orders that support their publication.
As Indonesia supplies more than 20 percent of the global nickel market, the country will certainly benefit greatly from the compulsory domestic refining of raw nickel. But policy flip-flopping does not bode well for the credibility of government policy.
It is not easy for Henny Dwi Purnamasari, a resident of Palembang, South Sumatra, to work in the mining sector, given that it is a heavily male-dominated industry. Every day, the 46-year-old leads the operation of a tailing storage facility at a gold mine in South Tapanuli, North Sumatra.
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