Indonesia's DSI will charge export service fee for key commodities incl. coal, 7 days after saying it would not

Indonesia's state-backed commodity export agency Danantara Sumberdaya Indonesia (DSI) will charge a service fee of single-digit dollars per tonne on outbound shipments of commodities including coal, its chief executive said on November 13, seven days after the government's deputy finance minister told exporters the DSI mechanism would cost them nothing.

As the fee is to be levied on quantity rather than on value, it falls hardest on shippers of the low-grade coal that makes up most of the country's export book, Mysteel Global notes. Luke Mahony, chief executive of DSI, said at the Indonesian Palm Oil Conference in Bali that