Indonesia is considering rejoining the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries as an observer after leaving the group six years ago, a minister said Thursday. “We want to have an interaction with the market [by becoming an observer in OPEC],” the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sudirman Said said. He said Indonesia has in the past been invited by OPEC to attend meetings as an observer. Indonesia discontinued its OPEC membership when it expired on Jan. 1, 2009. It has been a net oil importer since the early 2000s. The government is struggling to increase the country’s crude-oil production from about 830,000 barrels a day currently, while domestic consumption continues to rise. Indonesia’s renewed interest in attending OPEC meetings comes after a slump in oil prices since last summer that has […]