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Coal in Indonesia – political, economic and technological aspects
As well as the geological conditions and the existing mining capacity, factors such as national credit rating and the raw-materials infrastructure are decisive when making investment decisions in the overseas mining sector.
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Indonesia is certainly worth looking at in this respect, for the country has gone through major political change since the end of the Suharto regime in the mid-1990s. The coal industry is becoming increasingly important as a player in the international marketplace. Domestic energy supplies are for the most part based on oil and gas, which are also produced locally (1, 2).
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