Freeport Complains That The Warehouse Is Full Of Impact Has Not Been Allowed To Export, Director General Of Mineral And Coal: Be Patient!

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PT Freeport Indonesia complained about the full warehouse of copper concentrate which resulted in the company not having an export permit.

Responding to this, Acting Director General of Mineral and Coal, Muhammad Wafid, asked the company to be patient waiting for export permits. However, he ensured that the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources had issued export license recommendations for companies that had received export license relaxation such as Freeport and Amman Mineral.

"Well, what else? If the warehouse is full, you want to export it but there is no appropriate regulation to arrange a reference, everything will be wrong later. Yes, be patient!" he said when met at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Building, Monday, July 3.

He added that currently the company is just waiting for a concentrate export permit from the Ministry of Trade.

Wafid also emphasized that if as long as the rules are not synchronized, exports may not be carried out even though they have received relaxation and export recommendations.

"If the rules haven't been synchronized with the implementation, you can't. If you have carried out exports, it turns out that the regulations haven't allowed it or not, so it's not allowed, it's all our fault", he said.

He said that coordination and synchronization between ministries and institutions had been running well so that there was no problem in issuing regulations. He gave an example regarding the export of the copper concentrate, his party has coordinated with the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Industry and Customs and Excise and was going well.

"I think there is no problem. After all, comprehensively the government has determined that there will be relaxation during the smelter progress and it will be completed in May 2024", concluded Wafid.