Press Release

Recently, PT Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk or PTBA has been turned into 35 years. In the midst of its existence as a leading player in the coal industry, PTBA's journey had been chalked a lot of things stored in the historical record of Indonesia economy.

If traced backward, coal in Indonesia was first discovered in the Dutch colonialism rule in 1849, when the Borneo Maatschappij NV Oost an have made some excavating at Pengarong, East Kalimantan. Then in 1858, the Dutch has convinced that area in Ombilin, Sawah Lunto, West Sumatra have a lot of coal deposit.

Until in 1896,  Ziegler who was Lematang Maatschappij strongly convinced that the area containing coal Lematang in a very large amount covers an area of ??1,800 square kilometers with an estimated 910 million tons of cubic meters. The fact have been reinforced by the Dutch East Indies government document that published in 1859, in which communities around the banks of the River enim using black rocks as household supplies daily. Since the discovery, this exploration of coal began intensively in 1919.

With a long record of the era of Dutch East Indies government until the Japan colonialism, the rise of PTBA just really triggered through Presidential Instruction (PI) in 1976, where the use of coal should be the maximum in various sectors such as power plants steam and so on. Until the age of 35 years has now reached, PTBA increasingly provide good progress on the environment, communities, and stakeholders, even considered a mainstay in supporting the national economy for the nation. Happy birthday, PTBA!