JAKARTA, Nov 27 (Xinhua): The Indonesian government continues to maximize the use of coal in the country through downstream process so as to make this commodity remain a driving force for the national economy in the future.
The government has decided to turn coal into dimethyl ether and raw material for petrochemical factories, Director of Coal Business Development at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Sujatmiko said at the Indonesia EBTKE ConEx, an integrated event dedicated to driving the sustainable energy development in Indonesia.