*Indonesia's Bumi signs coal deals at $132/tonne *Indonesia's largest coal miner, PT Bumi Resources Tbk , has negotiated a 120 percent price hike for 2008 thermal coal deliveries to some Japanese utilities, traders said on Thursday.
Bumi last week agreed to sell 5 million tonnes of thermal coal at $132 a tonne to some Japanese utilities, two industry sources said, while other Japanese utilities have signed index-linked supply contracts with Bumi at $6 above the globalCOAL benchmark index.