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Indonesia has hiked its April coal reference price by 42% month on month to USD 288.40/t amid a US embargo on purchasing Russian material due to the latter’s war on Ukraine, it said on Tuesday.
The monthly price assessment, which reflects coal for loading free-on-board, was also more than treble the value of USD 86.68/t for April 2021.
"The global coal price has also been affected by this [US sanction], therefore the coal reference price was raised sharply by 41.5% from March," energy ministry spokesperson Agung Pribadi said in a statement.
Other nations had also shunned Russian coal due to its escalating war, while the EU was discussing sanctioning energy imports.
Economic recovery
The economic recovery as Covid-19 waned had also lifted global demand for coal, in particular from China, while heavy rainfall in some coal-producing regions provided additional upward pressure, the spokesperson added.
The energy ministry has set a production target of 663m tonnes for this year, well above the 614m tonnes of coal the country produced in 2021.
Indonesia is the world's largest thermal coal exporter, with China and India being its biggest customers.