Jakarta, Sept. 9 -- President Prabowo Subianto has instructed his ministers to calculate and classify Indonesia's natural resource reserves in line with the Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) Code, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia said on Tuesday.

"We just convened a meeting with the president discussing matters regarding our natural resource reserves, such as coal, bauxite, nickel, tin, and other minerals. He ordered us to apply the JORC Code on these reserves," Lahadalia told reporters at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta.

First introduced in Australia in 1989, the JORC Code sets minimum standards for estimating, classifying, and publicly reporting mineral exploration results, mineral resources, and ore rese...