Coal miners have called on the government to extend the transition period for implementing a new coal-export rule that creates longer procedures before shipment. In a change to previous arrangements, from Sept. 1 Indonesia, the world’s biggest exporter of thermal coal, will require miners to be registered exporters to allow them to ship the commodity overseas. To submit applications for the license, they must receive a recommendation from the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, which should issue a clear-and-clean status. Indonesian Coal Producers Association (APBI) chairman Bob Kamandanu welcomed the new regulation, but questioned the short transition period to adjust and comply with it, particularly because shipment procedures had become more complicated.