Indonesian Coal Miner ABM Investama will push through in December its planned initial public offering (IPO) despite recent market instability caused by weakening global demand for raw material coking coal.

ABM Investama hopes to raise as much as $312 million, Reuters quoted as saying the Indonesian miner's appointed underwriters for the IPO undertaking Morgan Stanley, Macquarie and local brokerage Mandiri Sekuritas.

The price range has been set between 3,250 rupiah to 4,650 rupiah per share. ABM Investama plans to sell a 20 per cent stake in the offering, or about 550.6 million new and existing shares.

ABM Investma's price-to-earnings ratio, from the IPO price range, stands at 7.5 to 10.8, Jakarta Globe said, quoting Iman Rachman, a director at Mandiri Sekuritas.

Sixty-six per cent of the proceeds would be used to fund the expansion of its units, 27 per cent to repay debt and the remainder to further boost ABM Investama's capital, the Jakarta Globe reported.

"We want to develop our five core businesses'' with the proceeds from the sale, including coal production, contract mining, integrated logistics, power solutions and engineering, Andi Djajanegara, the ABM Investama's president director, said in Jakarta Globe.

The share offering will run from Nov. 28 to 30 with a planned listing on the Indonesia Stock Exchange on Dec. 5.

ABM Investma's share sale would be the third-biggest IPO by an Indonesian company this year.

The Indonesia Stock Exchange has facilitated a total of 17 IPOs as of October. Companies that participated received a total of Rp 12.3 trillion in fresh funds.

Atlas Resources, one of the several Indonesian coal miners that also went public, raised Rp 975 billion from an offering last week.

The Indonesia Stock Exchange targeted 25 IPOs in 2011.

Forecaster Wood Mackenzie Ltd. had earlier said steelmaking coal prices will fall below $240 a metric tonne by the fourth quarter of 2012 due to global oversupply caused by weakening appetite for the raw material.