Indonesia grants mineral export permits to 55 companies
Indonesia has granted mineral export permits to 55 companies after it introduced a 20 percent tax to curb shipments of unprocessed minerals in May this year, according to media sources.
Indonesia will ban exports of some unprocessed metals from 2014 and could revoke the export licences of firms that violate the ban, the energy ministry said in a regulation that was posted on its website on Friday but later disappeared.