Indonesia Shifts Coal Export Strategy As Demand Lags

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The world’s biggest coal exporter, Indonesia, is looking to diversify in more Asian markets as it faces declining import demand from the top regional – and global – buyers, China and India.   Indonesian coal exporters want to grow their sales on the markets in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as south Asian importers Bangladesh and Pakistan which struggle to keep up with rising power demand, Fathul Nugroho, vice chair of the Association of Indonesian Energy, Mineral, and Coal Suppliers (Aspebindo),…