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Indonesia’s New Year gift to China: All coal exports suspended!

Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
January 2, 2022
in China
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It’s a new year! 2022 has ushered in with it a lot of hope for people around the world. For Chinese citizens, the new year has brought with it gloom, uncertainty and the looming threat of major blackouts. You see, China is an energy-starved nation. Its powerplants are perpetually in a crisis mode, since the communist nation never seems to really have sufficient supplies of coal to fuel its power sector with. In November 2021, China’s coal imports hit their highest level, as the onset of winter began giving people extreme chills. With the winter season now in full force, Chinese citizens now stare at the prospect of freezing.

Indonesia has just put a freeze on all coal exports! The suspension of coal exports will be in force for the whole of January, and may be extended if need be. This is nothing short of a full-blown crisis for China. Without Indonesian coal supplies, China will once again be gripped by an unforgiving shortage of the fossil fuel. Even if Indonesia resumes exports by February, the cascading effect of coal shortfall for China will disrupt normal life in the communist nation for a long time.

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Indonesia’s new year gift to China is savage. Ridwan Djamaluddin, Indonesia’s director general of minerals and coal said in a statement, “When coal supply to power plants are fulfilled then all return to normal, exports will resume. We will evaluate everything after January 5.” Indonesia is just trying to protect its own interests and energy security. The Southeast Asian country is itself faced by a whammy of sorts, and power plants risk running out of coal to produce electricity with.

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Djamaluddin added, “Why is everyone banned from exporting? It’s beyond us and it’s temporary. If the ban isn’t enforced, almost 20 power plants with the power of 10,850 megawatts will be out. If strategic actions aren’t taken, there could be a widespread blackout.”

The widespread export ban may disrupt monthly coal production volumes of around 38-40 million tonnes. Export trends of previous years have shown that Indonesia sends out approximately 30 million tonnes of coal every January, and a significant portion of the same goes China’s way. In fact, as luck would have it, Indonesia is China’s biggest coal supplier. For it to suspend exports of the fossil fuel has quite literally paved the way for China to be paralysed.

Late last year, China struck a three-year deal with Indonesian miners for $1.5 billion of the fuel, as Beijing sought long-term options to displace Australian supplies. According to Bloomberg, demand for Indonesian coal has been kept strong due to China’s tremendous appetite for the fossil fuel, even as demand from India weakens. India is growing self-sufficient in the energy sector and has enough domestic resources to power itself.

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Therefore, the suspension of exports by Indonesia will end up hurting China much more than it affects the Southeast Asian country’s other coal buyers. According to an industry analyst quoted by Reuters, the ban would push global coal prices higher in coming weeks as stockpiles decline. This, in turn, would end up being punishingly painful for China, as it would be paying higher prices for coal imported from alternate sources.

Indonesia takes on China’s Aluminium industry

Late last month, Indonesia decided to make use of the European Union’s decision to discourage the import of Chinese steel and aluminium. Adaro Energy, a major Indonesian coal miner, announced plans to invest $728 million in an aluminium smelter and a second endeavour to establish a “new energy battery factory”, marking the company’s first substantial movements away from coal.

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Indonesia’s decision to begin challenging China’s aluminium industry came in the backdrop of Chinese aluminium and steel factories shutting down owing to power shortages throughout 2020. And guess what, Indonesia’s suspension of coal only exacerbates the crisis in China’s aluminium and steel industries. All this, while Indonesia makes a big-bang entry into the aluminium sector itself!

2022 has been a disaster for China so far, and we are only two days into it. The coming 363 days, rest assured, will be nightmare for Xi Jinping as well, considering the fact that he remains in power, that is.

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Comments 6

  1. Avatar Samuel says:
    1 year ago

    Bye by China yeah

    Reply
  2. Avatar JM CH says:
    1 year ago

    Stop twisting around! I just saw & read yesterday news from Bloomberg that….. JAKARTA, Jan 3 (Bloomberg): A ban on coal exports from Indonesia may have a limited impact on top buyer China after the country boosted domestic output to stave off shortages of the fuel last year.

    Record production and mild weather have helped fill power plant stockpiles in China as winter heating demand peaks, giving buyers a buffer if they’re cut off from their top exporter, Morgan Stanley analysts including Sara Chan said Monday in a research note.

    Meanwhile I also read another news from TOI that “Indonesia’s ban on coal exports caused South Gujarat industries to feel the heat”!

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    • Avatar M- Van den Heuvel says:
      1 year ago

      Lets see, time for communist china to totally break down, fuck those commies

    • Avatar JM CH says:
      1 year ago

      One joker wrote “The Coming Collapse of China”. It was published in 2001. That was more than 20 years ago. Did China collapse? Nonetheless there are still many joker wannabes who also called and / or tried to predict the fall of China. Don’t tell me you are one of them?

  3. Avatar JM CH says:
    1 year ago

    Here is one of the news which again proves you are lying about Indonesia’s total ban of coal exports is hurting China. In fact it’s only hurting Japan as it’s asking Indonesia to revoke coal export ban immediately while China & South Korea shrug off supply worries for now
    World’s largest supplier of thermal coal acted because local stockpiles are hitting critical lows; and power outages would be a political problem for Indonesian leader Jokowi.

    Conclusion: Stop spewing around with your twisted lies. You may fool those ignorant readers but you ain’t fooling me!

    Reply
  4. Avatar JM CH says:
    1 year ago

    Again here is another (latest) news to prove once again your ridiculously blatant lies…

    Indonesia’s coal export backflip reinforces China’s Australia ban
    Even before Indonesia reversed a ban on coal exports, China indicated it would not need Australian coal to make up any shortfall.

    Michael Smith and Emma Connors
    Jan 11, 2022 – 6.42pm

    Reply

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