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View all search resultsWe believe civil society organizations and environmental NGOs will challenge the revisions through a judicial review petition with the Constitutional Court, especially regarding the guaranteed contract extensions and the concession size. But a judicial review would not annul the law as a whole, only the revised provisions.
While the House of Representatives has claimed it focused on regulations related to the COVID-19 outbreak in the recently concluded legislative session, activists have criticized lawmakers for passing contentious bills instead of prioritizing disaster management.
The House of Representatives narrowly escaped public scrutiny last week after it shelved a plan to deliberate a contentious mining law revision amid physical distancing measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, but activists remain unconvinced that lawmakers won’t revive the plan again in the future.
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry announced on Wednesday evening that the government tentatively had 938 points of disagreement with the House of Representatives’ proposed revision of the 2009 Coal and Mineral Mining Law.
As Indonesia supplies more than 20 percent of the global nickel market, the country will certainly benefit greatly from the compulsory domestic refining of raw nickel. But policy flip-flopping does not bode well for the credibility of government policy.
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