BP Migas Ceases to Exist

Pirhot Nababan

Constitutional Court (“MK”) has rendered Decision No. 36/PUU-X/2012 (“Decision”) on the judicial review of Law No. 22 of 2001 on Oil and Gas (“Oil and Gas Law”). MK partially grants the petition – which was filed by 42 petitioners (10 NGOs and 32 individuals) – to revoke and declare several articles of the Oil and Gas Law to be in contradiction with the 1945 Constitution. The petitioners requested a ruling that the following articles of the Oil and Gas Law should not have any binding power: