Coal dominated world energy markets last year by supplying the biggest share of demand since 1970, making it the fastest growing fossil fuel, according to an annual review by BP Plc.

The presidential candidate Joko Widodo, lovingly referred to only as Jokowi, recently visited the official residence of South Kalimantan Governor, Ruddy Ariffin, reports Tambang Online.They talked about, among others, the need for renegotiation between central and local government on the...

Today, Alpha Southeast Asia revealed the results of their fourth annual poll to find Southeast Asia’s top companies. The awards are based on tallied votes among 477 investors, pension funds, hedge funds, equity and fixed income brokers and analysts with investment interests in the...

Indonesia is expected to nearly double domestic consumption of thermal coal over the next eight years to help meet annual growth in electricity demand of around 8.4 percent, Reuters has reported the state power company as saying on Friday. Electricity demand growth in Southeast Asia’s...

Indonesian thermal coal prices remained stable amid a brief shutdown of the Barito River in South Kalimantan, sources said on Wednesday

Mining has traditionally been a male dominated industry and although there has been changes in terms of integrating woman into the mining industry, it appears that they are still underrepresented. According to a study “Mining for Talent” published in January conducted by Woman in...

The mud-colored air that blankets Chinese cities these days is bad for the people who live there. It may prove unhealthy for U.S. coal producers, too. Intense opposition on the U.S. West Coast, over climate change, rail congestion and damage to Native American fisheries, already is blocking new...

Indonesia, the world’s top exporter of thermal coal, is considering new regulations to limit coal production and tighten controls on exports, government officials said on Friday, and could introduce the rules by early next month. The country currently exports around 70 percent of its coal...

“There is no skin left on my teeth to hang on with,” was the lament of a coal trader, expressing a sentiment echoed time and again at the industry’s largest gathering in Asia

Indonesia, the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, plans to build 14 dedicated coal terminals in the islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra in a bid to curb illegal coal exports, a government official said Monday.