Industry Newsletters

Government threatens to take over Chinese-owned Widabe nickel mining venture

The Forest Management Remediation Working Group said that if PT Weda Bay Nickel fails to pay the administrative fine for illegally occupying forest land, further legal measures may be taken. The company has filed a complaint against the fine and plans to engage in a dialog. Previously the work...

China becomes Indonesia's main source of tombstone imports

Although Indonesia is a global player in the tombstone trade and its own stone products are also sold in large quantities to the U.S. and Japan, it still imports tombstones from abroad, with China being the main supplier. Central Bureau of Statistics data show that tombstone (HS code 68029900) imports in recent years...

Wistabay Park clarifies rumors of "smuggled nickel powder".

PT Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP) responded to the suspected smuggling of nickel powder by Chinese nationals through IWIP's exclusive airport in North Maluku province.On Friday, December 5, a Chinese national was arrested at IWIP...

Widabay Park accused of weighing and verifying minerals on its own

Weda Bay Industrial Park (PT IWIP) has been accused of violating mineral trading rules or causing the loss of national non-taxable revenues (PNBP) for allegedly weighing and verifying minerals on its own, rather than through a licensed inspection agency. Energy and Mining Legal Research ...

Indonesian Bird's Nest Exporter Plans to List on the Stock Exchange

Bird's nest exporter PT Abadi Lestari Indonesia Tbk.(RLCO) will be listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI). Its initial public offering (IPO) was priced at Rp 168 per share, with 625 million shares issued, raising a total of 1...

Indonesia restricts imports of unlabeled screened Chinese goods

The Indonesian government says the move to clean up imported goods goes beyond cracking down on the second-hand clothing trade and will also target the influx of new goods into the domestic market. The Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises revealed that the government is preparing to restrict unlabeled, lack of proper regulation in...

AKRA sells another 20 hectares of land Chinese chemical company takes over

Indonesia's AKR Corporindo (AKRA), through its subsidiary PT Berkah Kawasan Manyar Sejahtera (BKMS), has sold to Sichuan Jinxiang Chemical, which is located in the Gresik Integrated Industrial and Port Special Economic Zone (JIIPE) in East Java, to...

Indonesia plans to cut coal output next year to maintain prices

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources ESDM, the world's leading coal exporter, has decided to prevent a fall in international coal prices by cutting production next year. The Director General of the General Directorate of Mines and Coal recently explained at the Parliament House that after preliminary calculations, next year's coal production...

Indonesian Government Warns Palm Oil Industry of Illegal Tax Avoidance

The Finance Ministry's Directorate General of Taxation (DJP) has issued a stern warning to hundreds of companies over data discrepancies such as underinvoicing and the use of false invoices found in the palm oil industry. The finance minister recently emphasized that the government and the fiscal...

Indonesian industry calls for crackdown on upstream importers of used clothing

Around the issue of second-hand clothing (thrifting) imports, the Finance Minister recently reiterated that the government will continue to combat illegal imports and rejected the proposal to legalize by paying taxes, stressing that the key is the legitimacy of the goods and not the tax. However, public opinion has questioned the current...
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