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Indonesia Coal
Coal production declined in the 1970s because of
increasing use
of subsidized petroleum fuels. However, in the late 1970s
Suharto
announced a new effort to increase domestic coal use,
especially in
cement and electric power plants. Total coal production
rose
steadily in the 1980s to reach 11 million tons in 1990.
Most coal
reserves were located in southern Sumatra and eastern and
southern
Kalimantan. Total measured reserves were 4.2 billion tons,
with an
additional 12.9 billion tons classified as inferred
reserves and 15
billion tons of hypothetical reserves. A government mining
company,
P.T. Tambang Batubara Bukit, produced the majority of coal
in 1991,
but ten coal cooperation contracts signed between 1981 and
1987
with foreign investors were expected to produce a total of
20 to 25
million tons per year by 1994.
Data as of November 1992
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