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The government has launched an online tracking system for nickel and tin shipments to increase state revenue and improve governance in the mining sector. Already implemented for coal shipments since 2022, the Mineral and Coal Information System (Simbara) has now been expanded to encompass nickel and tin and is to be applied to other metallic minerals in the future.

Resource-rich Indonesia is the world’s biggest producer of nickel and one of the largest producers of tin. Simbara will enable the government to track the supply of nickel and tin from mines to domestic smelters. Finance Ministry Budget Director General said the government had launched the online tracking system for nickel and tin shipments given the two commodities’ increasingly strategic role in national and global economic development.

Read more at: https://www.thejakartapost.com/business/2024/07/22/new-tracking-system-to-prevent-fraud-in-nickel-tin-mining.html.