Berau Coal joins WCA membership

By Romel S. Gurky

Courtesy of Berau

World Coal Association (WCA) announced Friday that Indonesian coal mining company PT Berau Coal Energy Tbk has joined its membership.

IDX-listed Berau Coal is Indonesia's fifth-largest coal producer with an estimated 509 million tons of coal reserves, WCA said in a statement. Berau was established in 1983 and now operates three mines in Lati, Binungan and Sambarata.

Currently, Berau?s biggest market is China, which accounts for about 44 percent of the company's total sales.

The WCA is the global network for the coal industry made up of major international coal producers.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntaka