Indonesia's coal miners face six-week window for 2027 output quotas

Indonesian miners of coal and other commodities have until November 15 to file their 2027 work plans and budgets (RKAB), the document that fixes the volumes they will be allowed to mine next year. The six-week window opened on October 1 under the regulation of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

The ministry has ruled out a return to the three-year validity for RKAB that miners had sought, keeping the review for next year as an annual exercise. Tri Winarno, director general of minerals and coal at the ministry, had said on August 31 that the one-year rule was a