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JAKARTA. To strengthen cooperation between Indonesia and India, particularly in the areas of coal, dated June 10, 2010 meeting of the Indonesia-India Discussion Forum on Coal in Building Directorate General of Mineral, Coal and Geothermal, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. The Indonesian delegation consists of government and business circles led by Director General of Mineral, Coal and Geothermal, and delegations from India who are also members of government and business circles headed by Additional Secretary, Ministry of Coal Republic of India.

This cooperation is important because India and Indonesia are countries whose economies are developing countries and is the second largest population in the world. Large population requires a large energy supply as well. For India, coal is the main source of energy supply for electricity generation, coal contributed 66%, while in Indonesia that currently contribute 18% of coal in energy supply.

Indian coal demand continues to increase, for the year 2010 is estimated around 609 million tons, while coal production in India was 533 million tons, so India had to import 76 million tons of coal. Indonesia became the largest exporter of coal for electricity generation needs of India ie around 18 million tonnes.

For Indonesia, the coal has an important role in development include: as a supplier of energy for electricity needs, the contribution of state revenues and job creation. For the year 2010, according to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Year Strategic Plan 2010-2014, coal production plan of 250 million tons with domestic details to 75 million tonnes and the rest for export.

To maximize the contribution of coal then some regulations have been established by Indonesia such as: the establishment of processing and refining of liabilities in the country to increase the value-added mining, coal sales obligations to specify domestic demand, and pricing benchmark coal. Coal fields of cooperation opportunities between India and Indonesia is still open them in the joint exploration of coal, the utilization of research and development of low-grade coal (low rank coal), investment opportunities and cooperation in education and training. Cooperation between the governments of Indonesia and India are expected to continue to provide positive contributions in the use and management of coal in both countries

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