Press Release

Bukit Asam won the award. This time the award was given from the ASEAN Coal Award 2017 and Bukit Asam became one of the representatives from Indonesia who received the award in this event. At the 2017 ASEAN Coal Award, Indonesia participated by sending six participants to best practice categories (coal distribution, coal mining, clean coal use and technology for power generation), corporate social responsibility, and special submission. In ASEAN Coal Awards 2017, PT Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk won 1st Runner-up Best Practice in Coal Distribution. The award was presented in conjunction with the series of The 35th ASEAN Ministers Meeting on Energy Meeting (AMEM) on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at SMX Convention Center, Manila - Philippines. The 2017 ASEAN Coal Awards assessment process was held at the 7th Board of Judges Evaluation Meeting (BOJ) on 26 April 2017 in Jakarta. The ASEAN judges has evaluated all the ASEAN Coal Awards nominations and the results of the evaluation have been reported by the BOJ to the 15th ASEAN Forum Forum on Coal (AFOC) as the person in charge of the ASEAN Coal Awards. Bukit Asam in coal transportation from Tanjung Enim to Tarahan Port (Lampung) and Kertapati Jetty (Palembang) using railway carriages. The processes involved in coal transport include 1.) The arrangement of the amount and quality of coal cargo loaded into each train carriages through the Train Loading Station (TLS) 2) The supervision and documentation of coal distribution to the port or jetty. 3) The loading and unloading coal from train carriages using the Rotary Car Dumper (RCD) in Tarahan Port and Apron Feeder (AF) in Kertapati Jetty. The use of railway transportation as the main means of transporting coal to ports or jetty is an option due to low pollution. In addition, the effectiveness in a single transport of coal by train can reach 60 series of wagons to Tarahan and approximately 25 cars to Kertapati Jetty Palembang. One part of the effort of efficiency and increase the transportation capacity to Tarahan Port using Rotary Car Dumper (RCD) which is the work made by PTBA Main Workshop personnel, which is the unloading tool of coal from railway carriage by turning the car to spill coal In addition, the effectiveness of coal transportation is supported by the completion of double tracking, rail-loop repair, train loading station, and routine maintenance at Bukit Asam's loading and unloading facilities. This is to support the increased capacity and effectiveness of coal transportation owned by the company.