Regarding the Revision of the Oil and Gas Law, Business Actors Ask Special Oil and Gas Business Entities to Pay Attention to These Three Things

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JAKARTA - The government is working on a revision of Law No. 22 of 2001 concerning Oil and Gas (Oil and Gas Law).

With this revision, the role of the Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities (SKK Migas) as managing Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities is threatened with being disbanded.

Regarding this matter, Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Association of Oil and Gas Companies (Aspermigas) Moshe Rizal said that his party had been waiting for a long time for the revision of the Oil and Gas Law, which took up to a dozen years.

According to him, the problems that cause the revision of the Oil and Gas Law to take so long are not a concern for business actors because business actors only want to contract with official government institutions.

"It's up to us whether the name is SKK Migas, Special Oil and Gas Business Entity (BUK Migas) or what kind of organizational system, we will leave it to the government, the important thing is to contract with the government," said Moshe in the Energy Corner, quoted on Wednesday, September 20.

According to him, there are three things that concern business actors in the oil and gas sector, including legal certainty, ease of doing business, and incentive issues that can be open and discussed.

"Essentially, whatever the process we want, in any contract with anyone, at least we will have legal certainty, ease of doing business, and the issue of incentives that can be opened up. These three things," stressed Moshe.

Moshe added that the difficult process of revising the Kigas Bill actually affected the investment climate in Indonesia.

"Investors will see that this is a trivial matter for them, but for the government this is not a trivial matter. We are simple. We want to do business here," he said.

With the issuance of this Oil and Gas Law, continued Moshe, upstream oil and gas industry players are increasingly seeing the government's commitment to advancing the oil and gas industry.

"What is important for Indonesia is energy security and national energy resilience," concluded Moshe.