Indonesia lifts 2014 coal output target to 421 mln T

JAKARTA, March 7 (Reuters) - Indonesia's mines ministry increased this year's coal production target by as much as 6 percent to 421 million tonnes to match the output level in 2013, a senior government official said on Friday.

"The target is for (production) not to exceed last year's output. The upper limit is 421 million tonnes and the lower limit is 397 million," Edi Prasodjo, director of coal at the mines ministry, told reporters.

(Reporting by Fergus Jensen)

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