Combined coal exports for the year-to-date total were 175.7mt, down 3% year-on-year, according to shipbroker SSY.

The Southeast Asian country exported 35.7mt of coal, including lignite, in April 2014, down 2.7mt month-on-month.

Last month reports emerged that Indonesia was considering restricting exports of coal to feed growing domestic demand.

The world’s largest exporter of thermal coal currently exports around 70% of its coal production, much of it to China and India.

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