Prabowo to plough ahead on nickel”

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He noted that the government has already adjusted its investment focus as a result of falling global nickel prices and concerns about the environmental impact of nickel pig iron production in Indonesia’s mines. “They want to position themselves as a clean, class one nickel producer and that can only be done through high pressure acid leaching. So that’s where the focus is now,” Mr Werner told The Australian Financial Review. Since Mr Widodo banned exports of unprocessed nickel in 2020, Chinese and other investors, including Nickel Industries, have spent billions of dollars developing mining and smelting production in Indonesia. Nickel...