The Indonesian government is allowing environmental damage including deforestation and violations against Indigenous people ...

Since the export ban, foreign investment flowed into Indonesia to gain access to the country’s large reserves of nickel. Companies are investing in smelters producing nickel pig iron ...

As Indonesia is the largest producer of nickel ores, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is sanguine about leveraging this advantage to increase the domestic value added from the nickel ore export ban.

Indonesia, previously the world’s biggest exporter of nickel ore, announced a ban on the export of the unprocessed mineral in August 2019, and introduced domestic processing requirements that ...

he Philippines’ possible nickel ore export ban is “a cause for concern” for Indonesia’s smelter industry, experts have said, as they call on the government to intensify diplomacy to secure ...

MANILA, Philippines — The proposed export ban on the country’s nickel ore may have an implication on global supply of the green metal, particularly on Indonesia’s requirements, according to ...

While the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in October 2022 ruled against the nickel ore export restrictions, Indonesia appealed in November 2022 and was allowed to uphold the ban, pending a decision.

A nickel-ore export ban came into force in 2020. Now, Indonesia dominates global nickel-mining and smelting. It produces nearly half the world’s refined nickel and two-thirds of its mined nickel.

Over the last 15 years, Indonesia has imposed—and at times loosened—bans on raw resource exports and local ownership requirements. While the raw nickel export ban has proved effective in stimulating ...

Indonesia has the world’s largest reserves of nickel, a crucial ingredient in certain electric-vehicle (EV) batteries. Since 2020, when the export ban came into full force, it has come to ...

Companies must build smelters or mineral purification and processing centers to be able to export industrially. The ban on exporting copper concentrate next year follows the prohibition of other raw ...