While Appealing, the Government Discusses Plans for Nickel-ore Export Taxes

The government will appeal to the WTO as well as plans for the imposition of export duties or export taxes on nickel.

KOMPAS/MOHAMAD FINAL DAENG

A worker inspects ferronickel products processed from nickel ore at the PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) factory in Pomalaa, Kolaka Regency, Southeast Sulawesi, Friday (11/5/2011).

BADUNG, KOMPAS — The government will deploy a "double strategy" through fiscal and trade channels following Indonesia's defeat in a lawsuit against the nickel-ore export ban at the World Trade Organization. Apart from submitting an appeal to the WTO, plans for the imposition of export duties or export taxes on nickel ore are also being finalized.

Pande Putu Oka Kusumawardhani, the acting head of the State Revenue Policy Center for the Fiscal Policy Agency of the Finance Ministry, said that the discourse on implementing the nickel-ore export taxes is currently under discussion, in parallel with the government's efforts to submit an appeal to the WTO.