Japan has requested Indonesia immediately remove its export ban on shipments of high grade coal and asked that five loaded vessels be given departure permits, its Jakarta embassy said in a letter to Indonesian authorities.
The world’s largest thermal coal exporter banned outbound shipments from Saturday to avoid power outages at local generators.
The letter, dated Jan. 4 and verified by the embassy on Wednesday, noted that Japan mainly imported high caloric coals which are not used by Indonesian power plants.
(By Stanley Widianto and Fransiska Nangoy; Editing by Louise Heavens)
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