REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has set itself the target of revising 11 contracts of work (KK) this year.

"As many as 11 companies have not agreed to the revision of KK, and 32 companies have not agreed to the revision of coal mining contracts (PKP2K). We have set ourselves the target of revising all of them in 2017," Director General of Mineral and Coal Bambang Gatot Ariyono said here on Wednesday.

He made it clear that the ministry has signed 44 KKs, and two of them have turned into special mining permits.

In addition, it also has signed 12 other KKs, bringing the number of KKs already approved to 21, he stated.