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T
he State Secretariat has completed the review of the Job Creation Law handed over by the House of Representatives and it is ready to be signed by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, an official has said.
“The State Secretary has finished the tidying up process,” presidential expert staff member Dini Shanti Purwono said on Friday as reported by kompas.com.
She said after the final review by State Secretary Pratikno, the version sent by the House, which initially consisted of 812 pages, had now become 1,187 pages. The additional pages came from corrections of errors, as well as text and page formatting.
She further said that Pratikno had also scrapped one article from the law.
The 1,187-page version no longer contains changes to Article 46 of Law No. 22/2001 on oil and natural gas.
The article in question in the 812-page version gave the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry the authority to approve tariffs for transporting natural gas by pipeline or toll roads – a process that is currently under the jurisdiction of the Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas).
The House Legislation Body (Baleg) never approved the proposed change during the deliberation process, but it was included in the 905-page draft, which was used by the House to pass the bill into law on Oct. 5, as well as the 812-page version that the House sent to Jokowi.
