Overview

As a follow up to the issuance of Law No. 11 of 2020 on Job Creation (“Job Creation Law”), the government has issued Regulation of the Government No. 22 of 2021 on the Implementation of Environmental Protection and Management (“Regulation 22/2021”), which addresses a wide range of topics in order to accommodate the various changes introduced under the Job Creation Law to the existing framework of Law No. 32 of 2009 on Environmental Protection and Management (“Law 32/2009”). The topics of environmental approvals and the management of hazardous and toxic substance (bahan berbahaya dan beracun – “B3”) waste and non-B3 waste were dealt with in the previous part of this two-part Indonesian Law Digest (“ILD”) series.[1] Moving on, this second part in the series will address the remaining provisions set out under Regulation 22/2021, which encompass the following areas: