Most Reserves Are The Reason The Minister Of Energy And Mineral Resources Gives Coal Land To Ormas

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Arifin Tasrif (Photo: dock. Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Arifin Tasrif explained the reason for the government to provide opportunities for religious community organizations (ormas) to manage mines with commodity types in the form of coal.

The reason, said Arifin, is because the amount of coal reserves owned by Indonesia is still very large when compared to other types of commodities.

"Because the reserves are above 100 billion tons," said Arifin when met by the media at the General Directorate General of Oil and Gas (Migas) Building, Friday, June 7.

Arifin also said that later the business entity formed by the mass organization must first carry out a feasibility study on the land provided so that they can find out which market is the goal of the coal products produced.

"You have to make a feasibility study first, where does he want the market, secondly with the market, how much does he want to produce. For the production, he (the mass organization's business entity) needs how much production equipment, it is included in FS," said Arifin.

Later, mass organizations that receive IUPs must also meet several requirements, one of which is paying the cost of compensation for information data (KDI).

"You have to meet the requirements, yes, there is KDI," continued Arifin.

Regarding the areas to be given to mass organizations, the former land shrinkage from several large companies in Indonesia is like:

1. PT Arutmin Indonesia located in Tanah Laut Regency, Tanah Bumbu Regency, and Kotabaru Regency in South Kalimantan2. PT Kendilo Coal Indonesia located in Paser Regency in East Kalimantan3. PT Kaltim Prima Coal located in East Kutai Regency in East Kalimantan4. PT Multi Harapan Utama located in Samarinda Regency and Kutai Kartanegara Regency in East Kalimantan5. PT Adaro Indonesia located in Tabalong Regency in Central Kalimantan and Balangan Regency in South Kalimantan6. PT Kideco Jaya Agung located in Paser Regency in East Kalimantan