JAKARTA -- Indonesia is set to essentially ban exports of unprocessed minerals -- including tin, bauxite, gold and copper, crucial materials for global industries -- in the middle of 2023. Should the policy take force, its impact will be immeasurable: Some of the minerals are critical to electric vehicles, advanced semiconductors and other leading industries of the 21st century.
Joko Widodo is confident investments will flow into Indonesia if "we stop [exports of] bauxite, we stop copper, we stop tin, we stop gold, everything stops, stops, stops." © Nikkei montage/Source photos by AP and Getty Images
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