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Mining Advocacy Network coordinator, Merah Johansyah Ismail, on Sunday’s press conference suspects that the drafting of the much-debated work of an omnibus bill has been driven by the interests of coal and mineral corporations. Ismail claims that there are seven coal and mineral corporations that control 60-70 percent of Indonesia’s national coal production. According to him, the permits of three of the corporations are about to expire by the end of this year. He suspects that the coal and mineral corporations have interests in the cluster overseeing mining within the omnibus bill under Article 169A on automatic permit extension without having to undergo the process of handing back permits to the government and an auction. The coal and mineral Law (UU Minerba) controls this by requiring corporations to hand back the permits to the government as it expires. Coal corporations must also adjust their mining areas to the maximum extent overseen under the same law, which is 15,000 hectares//tempo