JAKARTA: * Indonesia's Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry plans to revise rules on mining rights held by miners under Coal Contract of Work (CCOW), an official at the ministry said on Monday* Under proposed changes, miners can apply for extensions to mining rights between five years and one year before contracts expire
* Existing rules only allow miners to apply for extensions between two years and six months before contracts expire
* Proposed changes are governed in a revision of a presidential decree that is currently being checked by the Law and Human Rights Ministry, said Hufron Asrofi, head of the energy ministry's legal bureau
* With the revision, extended contracts would transfer into special mining permits (IUPK)
* "Hopefully the revision can be completed this year," Asrofi said