the president, joko widodo, explained his decision.lation: we need to make sure that our natural resources benefit our own people. that's the founding principle, and oui’ that's the founding principle, and our mining needs to be sustainable and done with respect for the environment. here is more now on the change in the ruling from our indonesia correspondent. joko widodo they're talking about the environment, sustainable mining. it is very unclear how these changes will actually protect the environment. what this is really about is improving the economy and creating jobs, it was one that ban on export of raw minerals was introduced, two years the idea was that companies would build smelters, employ indonesians to process these minerals and keep more of the value from indonesia's mining in the country. but that hasn't happened. what did happen was mines were closed across the country. there we re closed across the country. there were mass layoffs, companies very relu cta nt to were mass layoffs, companies very reluctant to build smelte