Asean mulls critical mineral collaboration to ensure energy security

ASEAN (Bernama-ANTARA): Member countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) are considering critical mineral collaboration for maintaining the region's energy security, a top official of Indonesia's Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Ministry has said.

Critical minerals will play a very vital and strategic role for all countries in supporting the energy transition from fossil to renewable energy, ANTARA news agency quoted Director of Mineral and Coal Programme Development at the ministry Tri Winarno as saying.