8 ways to ensure Indonesia's nickel sector is sustainable
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's ambition to turn Indonesia into a global hub for electric vehicle (EV) battery production has thrust the nation's mining commodities, particularly nickel ...
Cheap coal, cheap workers, Chinese money: Indonesia's nickel …
"Calling the nickel industry a part of the green transition is a joke," says Muhammad Taufik, coordinator at Jatam, an organisation advocating for a more just mining industry in Indonesia ...
The rush for nickel: 'They are destroying our future'
According to data from the Indonesian government, about 50 nickel mining companies currently operate in North Konawe Regency, across the water from Labengki Island. Tawing with his catch. The ...
Indonesia to wipe out global nickel rivals, warns French …
Indonesia's low-cost nickel suppliers will wipe out rivals in the next few years, cementing the country as the world's dominant producer of the metal vital to electric car batteries, the head ...
Optimizing Indonesia's Nickel Industry Potential and …
Indonesia is the world's largest nickel ore producer. In 2022, production amounted to an estimated 1.6 million metric tons, with about 21 million metric tons in reserve. Nevertheless, Indonesia ...
Indonesia's Nickel Industrial Strategy
As of 2020, Indonesia has 292 nickel mining permits. Most of the concessions are in Sulawesi, as the island hosts most of the national nickel reserves. Central Sulawesi Province is home to the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP), an integrated nickel hub for steel production, where a supply chain for battery production is …
New technology could cement Indonesia's dominance of vital nickel
Macquarie Group, an Australian financial firm, thinks that by 2025 the country could supply 60% of the world's nickel, up from around half today. Most of the world's nickel, including that ...
Nickel miners linked to devastation of Indonesian forests
Around 271 hectares of that concession has been deforested, according to Mighty Earth Analysis. "United Tractors will monitor and encourage good mining practices in Nickel Industries' mines ...
Indonesia's uncertain climb up the nickel value chain
Indonesia's nickel ore output is on an upward trend, with all of it being sold and processed domestically in 2021. Exports of nickel-containing metals have increased rapidly. Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the metal …
Nickel mining in Indonesia
Indonesia is the largest nickel producer in the world, with around 1.6 million tonnes of nickel produced in 2022, up from 1.04 million tonnes in 2021. In comparison, total global production of nickel in 2022 was around 3.3 million tonnes. [8]