The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (?Minister?) has issued Regulation No. 38 of 2014 on Implementation of Safety Management Systems for Mineral and Coal Mining (?Regulation?) to provide for safe, secure, efficient, and productive mining operations.

The Minister of Trade (?Minister?) has issued Regulation No. 04/M-DAG/PER/1/2015 on Provisions to Use a Letter of Credit for Exporting Certain Commodities (?Regulation?). The purpose of the Regulation is to optimize foreign-exchange gains from export activities which is realized by ensuring payment certainty for exported natural resource products.

The 2015 Regulation aims to strengthen control over the export and import of crude oil, natural gas, other types of fuel (such as biofuel and ethanol) and their derivative products (?Fuel?) as listed in Appendix I to the 2015 Regulation.

In essence, the 2014 Regulation prohibits the sale of bulk cooking oil (minyak goreng curah) by requiring producers and sellers of cooking oil to affix a brand on their cooking oil products, as well as packaging their cooking oil based on standard packing requirements. To assist small-medium producers and sellers to comply with these requirements, the 2014 Regulation provides guidelines on using the government-owned trademark and packaging standard for cooking oil called ?MIYAKITA?.

The Regulation sets out the qualifications for support services businesses in the electricity sector relative to the business? scale as either small, medium, or large (?Business?). The qualification is a requirement before a business may provide electricity business support services.

The 2014 Regulation has two main objectives, namely: 1) determining standards for emission substances that can be released by mining companies into the atmosphere; and 2) establishing an obligation on mining companies to monitor the emissions they produce from their processing activities (only for mineral mining companies) and the operation of support machinery.

Government Regulation No. 77 of 2014 (?Third Amendment?) has been issued to amend Government Regulation No. 23 of 2010 on Implementation of Mineral and Coal Mining Activities (?2010 Regulation?).

The 2014 Regulation aims to provide flexible requirements for two types of mining companies that wish to be listed (conduct an initial public offering ? IPO) on the IDX, namely: Mining companies; and Mining company holding companies.

Under the 69/2014 Regulation, certain activities that utilize water resources by businesses and the public, require obtaining a permit. This requirement is established to ensure that water resources are used for the greater good and in equitable manner to protect public rights to access water as a basic need.

The Dirjen Regulation sets out guidelines for obtaining a ?Recommendation? from the Director General of Minerals and Coal (?Dirjen?), which is a requirement to be acknowledge as a registered exporter of coal and coal products (eksportir terdaftar batubara ? ?Registered Exporter?) by the Director General of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Trade necessary to carry out coal export activities.