
Indonesia's Attorney General's Office has seized assets worth IDR 338.36 billion (USD 19.1 million) and named five suspects in an alleged corruption case involving a bauxite mining permit in West Kalimantan. Indonesia's Attorney General's Office (AGO) has seized IDR 338.36 billion (USD 19.1...
CREA estimates that Chinese investment in Indonesia's aluminium industry currently stands at between USD 5.5 billion and USD 6 billion, and forecasts that figure could rise to USD 30 billion by 2030. China currently produces around 60 per cent of the world's aluminium. Chinese companies began...
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According to the recent data released by General Administration of Customs, China imported 8.73 million tonnes of bauxite in December 2021, which reflected a month-on-month increase of 13.32 per cent and a year-on-year hike of 16.4 per cent. From Australia, China imported 2.9 million tonnes of...

On 2 nd February 2022, the Indonesian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Dewi Gustina Tobing met the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo towards promotion and the marketing of Indonesian produced aluminium and electric motorcycles. The ambassador promoted the aluminium manufactured in...

On 24 th January 2022, the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo visited the Riau Islands to conduct a review of the bauxite to the alumina processing facility at PT Bintan Alumina Indonesia in Galang Batang-Bintan, Riau Islands province. The Presidential attendant from Jakarta arrives at Raja Haji...

The Indonesian aluminium giant PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum in vernacular known as Inalum attained aluminium production of 243,000 tonnes while sales were recorded at 218,000 tonnes in 2021. The Mining Industry Indonesia (MIND ID) holding company depended on aluminium commodities by diversifying...

Indonesian President, Joko Widodo stated that the government will continue to enforce the restriction on the export of raw mining commodities. “After nickel, [we will ban] bauxite export. The regulation is being finalized. We are preparing a smelter,” said Joko Widodo. Following bauxite, the...

Presently, around the world, the primary technique of processing aluminium scrap is remelting in units of various types and then molten metal is usually cast into ingots. However, in some cases, the melt is granulated or gas atomized to produce powder of recycled aluminium. The remelting-casting...

On 6 th January 2022, the Indonesian state-owned company specialized in aluminium smelting, PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum, commonly known as Inalum will be 46 years old. All it started with a joint venture between the Indonesian and Nippon Asahan Aluminium Co. Ltd., a consortium of Japanese...

PT Adaro Energy based in Indonesia signed a letter of intent this week to invest in a smelter project to be developed at the Green Industrial Park Indonesia in North Kalimantan province. Adaro Energy, an Indonesian coal business, said in a statement on Thursday that it aims to build a $728 million...

The Indonesian state-owned company specialized in aluminium smelting, Inalum Operating as part of the BUMN Holding Mining Industry MIND ID is dedicated towards the development of the national aluminium industry cluster. However, Inalum through its subsidiary PT Indonesia Aluminum Alloy (IAA) will...

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the United States exported 7,370 tonnes of US aluminium scrap to Indonesia in September 2021, showing a month-on-month hike of 170 tonnes or by 2.36 percent. In August 2021, 7,200 tonnes of US aluminium scrap was exported to Indonesia, showing a slip of...

China's aluminium sector, the world's largest, is growing increasingly reliant on foreign supply of the ore needed to produce the metal, highlighting the country's long-term reliance on imported raw materials. Alumina, an intermediate substance created from bauxite ore, is used to make the...

The Indonesian-based holding company that engaged in the manufacturing and trading business of aluminium extrusion-based building and household materials, PT HK Metals Utama Tbk (HKMU) positively welcomes the Joko Widodo government's plan to cautiously halt the export trade of bauxite among other...

State backed Chinese research house Antaike stated that, a hypothetical restriction on bauxite shipments from Indonesia as early as next year will have no impact on China's aluminium sector since there is ample alternative supply from Guinea. Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday that...

The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has planned to marshal the groundbreaking event during December 2021 for an aluminium smelter in North Kalimantan, Indonesia. On 23 rd November 2021, Septian Hario Seto, the Deputy for Investment and Mining said: “The majority of the investment comes...

The 7th and current President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo on 24 th November 2021 restated his plan to discontinue the exports of all commodity raw materials that will ban the exports of bauxite in 2022, copper in 2023, and tin in 2024. "We are now calculating the possibility to stop exporting raw...

The Indonesian state-owned company specialized in aluminium smelting, PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum (Persero) or Inalum will cooperate with PT PLN (Persero) to perceive its obligation to progress the national aluminium industry to a more advanced stage, innovative and competitive level. On 18 th...

It is very much well known to us that germs are the source of disease. Hence, the medical world created a disinfectant to eliminate germs rapidly. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the presence of disinfectants reached its peak in the community. Furthermore to germs, disinfectant liquid can extinguish...

On 19 th October 2021, the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo stated the country is planning to put brakes on the export of all crucial raw commodities in an attempt to entice investment in onshore resource processing and job creation. The world’s largest island nation, Indonesia has banned a...