The government again revises its domestic market obligation regulation. The rule has been ineffective in guaranteeing the supply of cheap cooking oil.

There is another crisis of coal supplies for PLN as a result of regulations that are easy for businesses to find a way around. There is no need to establish a public service agency.

The coal supply for steam power plants is depleting. Mining companies refuse to supply them at domestic prices. The fate of coal supply now depends on the government’s assignment scheme.

The Attorney General’s Office names the Director-General of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Trade and three people in the palm oil business as corruption suspects related to the crude palm oil export. They are alleged of creating a cooking oil cartel.

The government is certain that its domestic market obligation policy, meant to suppress the price of cooking oil, would not disrupt the export market. Businesses are still baffled.

The shortage of coal for domestic power plants is the result of poor management from PLN and the government. An export ban will not solve the problem.

Coal businesses are suffering from the export ban caused by a supply crisis at power plants. But state electricity company PLN is also at the root of the problem.

The government is imposing a coal export ban due to a supply crisis at several state-owned and private power plants. The business chain is in disarray.

The government bans coal export for the whole month of January after coal miners fail to fulfill their DMO to supply coal for PLN. This show of force is clearly not the right way to solve the coal crisis.

The shortage of coal supplies to PLN electricity generators leads to export bans for 34 companies. Accusations fly as coal prices rise. This report on the dilemma of the electricity and coal businesses was done with the support of the Judith Neilson Institute.