Committee to deliberate mining bill formed<\/p>\n
Leony Aurora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The House of Representatives has established a new special
\ncommittee to deliberate a draft law on mineral and coal mining,
\nwhich was proposed by the government.<\/p>\n
The House plenary session officiated the special committee,
\ncomprising 50 members from all factions, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
"The issues that need to be discussed include mining licenses,
\nmining areas, state income and non-taxable income," said Ramson
\nSiagian, a committee member from the Indonesian Democratic Party
\nof Struggle (PDI-P).<\/p>\n
He said the committee would also discuss the possibility of
\nintroducing a limitation on the width of coal mining areas.<\/p>\n
"The demand for coal is rising, and area limitation is needed
\nto ensure that there is no monopoly in the sector," he added.
\n"The limit should be specifically set within the law."<\/p>\n
The committee would also consider setting a domestic market
\nobligation to secure domestic coal supplies, said Ramson.<\/p>\n
The mining bill committee includes 12 members from the Golkar
\nfaction, 10 from PDI-P, four from the Prosperous Justice Party
\n(PKS) and two from the Democratic Star Pioneer Party (BPD).<\/p>\n
The National Development Party (PPP), Democratic Party (PD),
\nNational Mandate Party (PAN) and National Awakening Party (PKB)
\nfactions each have five representatives while the Reform Star
\nParty (PBR) and Prosperous Peace Party (PDS) factions have one
\neach.<\/p>\n
The proposed law on mining will replace the existing law that
\nwas enacted some 28 years ago, and will see several significant
\nchanges.<\/p>\n
Among others, the new bill will incorporate the role of local
\nadministrations in issuing licenses subsequent to the
\nimplementation of the regional autonomy law.<\/p>\n
An article in the draft law will also stipulate that all
\ncompanies holding licenses for operation and production must
\nprocess part of their output domestically.<\/p>\n
The bill also gives specific time frames for exploration and
\nexploitation contract periods, which are eight years and 23
\nyears, respectively.<\/p>\n
After that, each extension of exploitation contracts is
\nlimited to 10 years.<\/p>",
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