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Indonesia may increase export tariffs for miners reluctant to build smelters in the country, as part of a series of efforts to add value to the nation’s mineral resources, a senior official at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry said on Wednesday.

“Our position is still the same, that mining commodities must be processed domestically before being exported,” Thamrin Sihite, the ministry’s director general for coal and mineral resources, told reporters on the sideline of a hearing at the House of Representatives in Jakarta.

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