The Establishment Of The Directorate General Of Gakkum ESDM Aims To Improve Indonesia's Mining Governance

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JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Yuliot Tanjung ensured that the establishment of the Directorate General of Law Enforcement (Ditjen Gakkum) aims to improve governance in the Indonesian mining sector.

"There will be a unit of the Directorate General of Law Enforcement to ensure that all mining activities are legal and meet the provisions of the legislation," said Yuliot as quoted by ANTARA from Jakarta, Friday, January 3.

In addition, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is also targeting simplification of regulations, transparency, and providing legal certainty for business actors engaged in the mining sector.

"From existing services, we will digitize, as well as tracking systems (tracking systems) to find out the extent of the completion of permits and services in the directorate general units at ESDM," he said.

Previously, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia stated that the Directorate General of Law Enforcement (Ditjen Gakkum), which will soon be formed at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, will be led by officers, ranging from police, soldiers, or prosecutors.

Bahlil admitted that so far mining management in Indonesia has not been transparent.

This is because Bahlil found that the work plan report and the current year's budget for mineral and coal mining business activities (RKAB) were slow in the process of issuing it.

With the addition of a new directorate in the institution he leads, Bahlil hopes that the Directorate General of Law and Human Rights can solve the problem of mining business permits (IUP), while making mining governance in Indonesia more transparent.

Bahlil also conveyed that not only through the Directorate General of Law and Human Rights which will be formed, he also wants a commitment from entrepreneurs not to use consultant services in the process of making permits in the mineral and coal sector to minimize fraud.