Team set up to determine fate of non-C&C miners

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR), the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Ministry of Forestry, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and other related institutions agreed during a meeting Friday to set up a joint team tasked with determining the fate of non-clean and clear (non-C&C) miners.

Investor Daily quoted Director for Coal and Mineral Program at MEMR, Sri Rahardjo as saying that the meeting did not reach any conclusion to decide on what to do with the non-C&C miners, only agreeing to set up a joint team. ?We set up a team, and we?ll meet again,? Sri said.

Other senior officials of the ministry had previously said that the government would revoke the IUP permits of miners failing to meet the end of June deadline in achieving the C&C status.

Out of a total of 10,432 IUPs, 6,156 have obtained the C&C status as per end of June 2015, meeting they have meet a number of requirements set by the government including non-overlapping of permits and paying financial obligations to the state properly. (*)