In a bold move to ensure mining companies meet their commitments to build processing plants or smelters, Indonesia has decided to impose big fines on them, payable within a month, if they fail to make progress on construction as planned.
The fines could amount to the equivalent of 20 per cent of the value of unprocessed mineral exports - such as nickel ore, raw bauxite and copper - in the past six months.
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