Indonesias Constitutional Court ("MK") has decided to partially grant the Petitioners petition and has therefore declared 21 Articles of Law 13/2003, as amended by Law 6/2023, to be conditionally unconstitutional.
The rescue of animal species ("Rescues") may be conducted both within (in situ) their natural habitats (i.e. in response to natural disasters and/or human activities) and outside (ex situ) said habitats (i.e. to facilitate the management of species aimed at increasing and recovering their populations). Overall, Rescues involve assessments and classifications of the relevant animal species through the following phases: 1) Initial assessment and classification; 2) Evaluation of the medical and behavioral conditions of the relevant species; and 3) Issuance of a Rescue recommendation.
This new framework updates provisions that specifically address technical requirements for green industry standards (standar industri hijau/SIH) for palm oil cooking industry companies that operate in line with Indonesia Standard Industrial Classification (Klasifikasi Baku Lapangan Usaha Indonesia/KBLI) 10437.
In addition to the original mandate for higher education institutions to establish and execute mandatory initiatives for the prevention and mitigation of sexual violence, the new framework has now mandated that the leaderships of these institutions, as well as campus stakeholders (e.g. lecturers and students) and partners of the relevant higher education institutions (i.e. businesses engaged in cooperation with such institutions), should expand their prevention and mitigation efforts to include six types of violence that need to be addressed by each higher education institution. The aforementioned six types of violence break down as follows: 1) Physical violence; 2) Psychological violence; 3) Bullying; 4) Sexual violence; 5) Discrimination and intolerance; and 6) Policies that permit violence.
The overall stages of contract execution have been significantly streamlined, with the process being reduced from 20 stages to just 15 stages. However, contract execution now explicitly includes phases such as design and construction implementation, which imposes new obligations on business actors who provide goods/services under contracts in relation to procurements of design-and-build constructions (collectively referred to as "Providers"). Moreover, a new method for advance payments has been introduced that allows for installment payments (termin), whereby Providers may receive payments in agreed-upon stages.
The Third Amendment now allows non-individuals (i.e. businesses and legal entities) to register and participate as crypto-asset customers. Said businesses or legal entities must fulfill certain requirements, including: 1) Must maintain systems capable of implementing the Know Your Transaction and integrated travel rules principles; 2) Must secure relevant business licenses; 3) Must be domiciled within Indonesia; and 4) Must use their own funds or crypto-assets.
Owners or managers of accommodation, as well as parties who offer lodging to foreign nationals, are now required to provide information on their foreign guests to both immigration and police officers upon relevant requests being made. Any failure to comply with these requirements may result in the imposition of criminal sanctions, including prison terms of up to three months or fines of up to Rp. 25 million.
The applicable annual listing fees for asset-backed securities (efek beragun aset "EBA") range from Rp. 25 million to Rp. 100 million, which should be calculated as a percentage of the relevant nominal value, with rates varying between 0.0125% and 0.0105%. In terms of listing fees, PT Bursa Efek Indonesia ("BEI") is also offering a 50% incentive discount on these stipulated fees, which applies to each annual listing invoice until 16 October 2029.
The fee components for court settlement processes that are to be borne by disputing parties ("Process Fees") and that are applicable at all courts nationwide are divided up into fees that are applicable at district courts and fees that are applicable at high courts. In this regard, the applicable Process Fee tariffs themselves have been divided up into fees that should be borne for the following legal proceedings: 1) Cassation; 2) Judicial reviews (Peninjauan Kembali); and 3) Applications for material judicial reviews of regulatory frameworks at the Law level. Said outlined Process Fee tariffs range from Rp. 500,000 up to Rp. 10 million.
While the gradual implementation of halal certification, as applicable to food and beverage products and ingredients that are manufactured by medium- and large-scale enterprises, has now reached the end of the line and said mandatory certification is therefore now in full force, the same gradual implementation for micro- and small-scale enterprises has now been extended until 17 October 2026. On of the key features that have been introduced under Regulation 42/2024 include lifetime permanent validity for halal certificates issued by the Halal Product Guarantee Agency (Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Produk Halal "BPJPH"), provided that no changes are made to the relevant composition of ingredients and/or halal product processing (Proses Produk Halal "PPH").