Indonesia Orders Miners to Provide More Coal Amid Blackouts

How Indonesia’s coal policies left its own citizens in the dark

Hours-long blackouts since last week have disrupted the lives and businesses of millions of subscribers of state-owned utility firm PLN in Java.

Indonesia Orders Miners to Provide More Coal Amid Blackouts

(Bloomberg) — Indonesia’s energy ministry directed miners to urgently boost domestic coal supplies just before the country was hit by rolling blackouts, the latest strain on President Prabowo Subianto’s administration following a week of protests.