May 15, 2015 | Commodities, Law
While state-owned oil and gas Pertamina is given opportunity to get into the expired oil and gas blocks, it is not an automatic process as demanded by the Company’s supporters. Pertamina’s applications and proposals are also subject to thorough evaluation...
May 15, 2015 | Commodities, Law
Minister of energy and mineral resources Sudirman Said has on Friday, May 8, signed Regulation No, 15/2015 about management of oil and gas working areas, whose production sharing contracts (PSCs) are about to expire. What’s in there? Implications to oil and gas...
May 12, 2015 | Industries, Law
Investigation into corruption case surrounding the supply of condensates to the troubled petrochemical company PT Trans Pacific Petrochemical Indotama (TPPI) has dragged two former senior officials of the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Body (BPMigas, now SKKMigas)....
May 11, 2015 | Industries, Law, Politics
Pretty much as predicted, national police has named two names previously mentioned in our list suspects in the corruption case evolved around the troubled petrochemical complex PT Trans Pacific Petrochemical Indotama, otherwise known Tuban Petrochemical Complex....
May 11, 2015 | Law, Politics
It appears that maneuver to revise the Regional Election Law No. 1/2015 and the Law No. 2/2011 on the amendment of the Political Party Law No. 2/2008 came from the opposition group at the House of Representatives (DPR). One can’t be blamed to suspect that the revision...
May 11, 2015 | Law, Market, Reviews
After “winning” the judicial review of Law No. 7/2004 on Water Resources (SDA) recently and the closing down of Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Body (BPMigas) in late 2012, the Central Board of Muhammadiyah (PP Muhammadiyah) together with some elements of the society...
May 11, 2015 | Law, Reviews
The Constitutional Court (MK) through its decision No. 85/PUU-XI/2013 had declared the Law No. 7/2004 on Water Resources (SDA) inconstitutional. This decision certainly brings a great deal of impacts to the business community in Indonesia and the global investment...
May 7, 2015 | Law, Politics
The Attorney General Office (AGO) claimed that their newly Anti-Corruption Special Task Force, consisted of 100 prosecutors—pretty much the size of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)—have detained 48 graft suspects in the last two months from investigation...
