Government Completes New Regulations on Natural Resource Export Proceeds, Finance Minister Purbaya Says State Secretary to Announce
New Regulations on DHE SDA Completed, Purbaya: Announcement to be Made by the Minister of State Secretary
- [Mohammad Yudha Prasetya]
Jakarta, VIVA – The Minister of Finance, Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa, confirmed that the new regulations regarding the placement of Export Proceeds (DHE) from Natural Resources (SDA) in the Association of State-Owned Banks (Himbara) have been completed and are ready to be announced.
“It was signed a few days ago,” said Purbaya at the Ministry of Finance office, Jakarta, on Tuesday, 24 February 2026.
As the administrative process for the new DHE SDA regulations has been completed, Purbaya assured that the announcement is only awaiting the next step from the Minister of State Secretary, Prasetyo Hadi.
“The Minister of State Secretary will make the announcement. It has also been enacted,” said Purbaya.
The new regulations revise Government Regulation (PP) No. 8 of 2025 concerning Amendments to PP No. 36 of 2023 regarding Export Proceeds.
Previously, Purbaya explained that the policy change aims to strengthen the national foreign exchange reserves, which are considered to be underperforming. This is because the achievement of Indonesia’s foreign exchange reserves is not yet reflective of the country’s large trade surplus.
In 2024, Indonesia’s foreign exchange reserves were recorded at US$155.7 billion, while by the end of December 2025, they only slightly increased to around US$156.5 billion, or an increase of only about US$0.8 billion.
In fact, according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), Indonesia’s trade balance from January to November 2025 recorded a surplus of US$38.54 billion, an increase of 31.8 per cent year-on-year compared to the same period in the previous year, which was US$29.24 billion.
Purbaya believes that this situation strengthens his previous suspicion that the previous DHE regulations still had many loopholes. As a result, export proceeds did enter the country, but quickly exited again.
“Our previous regulations on export proceeds had many loopholes, so the money still came in, but then went out again, perhaps within a few hours,” said Purbaya.
Therefore, he said that the government plans to tighten the regulations by requiring the placement of DHE SDA only in Himbara banks so that it can be managed more effectively. With this policy, Purbaya hopes to see the real impact of the trade surplus on foreign exchange reserves under more normal conditions. (Ant).