JAKARTA, Nov 27 (Reuters) –
* Indonesia’s production of coal for the January-September period was 390 million tonnes, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif said in a presentation to parliament on Wednesday
* Tasrif also said Indonesia aims to produce 489 million tonnes of coal this year
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* Indonesia revised up its 2019 coal output target to this number in March, from 480 million tonnes, after over-shooting the 2018 production target
* Out of the January-September production, 82 million tonnes were consumed by domestic buyers, Tasrif said
* In August, another senior energy ministry official said estimated coal output this year could reach 600 million tonnes, but it’s not immediately known why there would be such a discrepancy in the numbers (Reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe; Writing by Fransiska Nangoy; Editing by Tom Hogue)
