Government Prepares Technical Regulations for Carbon Trading, Here Are the Sectors
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) is currently formulating technical regulations for domestic carbon trading. The rules will be issued as an ESDM Ministerial Regulation, serving as a derivative of Presidential Regulation Number 110 of 2024 on the Economic Value of Carbon.
Director General of New, Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation at the Ministry of ESDM, Eniya Listiani Dewi, explained that the draft regulation is currently undergoing internal synchronisation. She noted that data integration between the oil and gas, electricity, and mineral and coal sectors is still required before the regulation is signed.
“We are discussing the business process. The economic value of carbon. So, how the energy sector will operate specifically. But it is still being drafted in various forms, as it is only a ministerial regulation draft,” she said when met at the Ministry of ESDM building in Jakarta, quoted on Tuesday (7/7/2026).
The sectors covered by the carbon trading rules include the energy sub-sectors, ranging from manufacturing industries and energy use in buildings to the transportation sector via electric vehicles. In addition, Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) technology and waste-to-energy processing are also being designed to enter the energy sector’s carbon market.
“It is the energy sector. The energy sector comes from various sources. From industry, from buildings, that is Public Works. Then for EVs, that is from transportation. From electricity businesses, energy exploitation, carbon capture storage, that is CCS. Waste to energy, we are conceptualising all of that. Essentially, everything related to the energy sector is being handled by the Ministry of ESDM,” she continued.
One crucial point being finalised is the determination of carbon unit ownership rights, which will be granted directly to the developer or energy producer. This scheme ensures that companies investing in low-emission technologies, such as rooftop solar power plants or biodiesel blends, can independently claim the economic value.
“Basically, in our regulation, the carbon will belong to the developer. The point is that it does not go to Pertamina or PLN and then become their property; it belongs to the producer sector. That is the most urgent emphasis,” she explained.
Additionally, the government plans to inaugurate the General Carbon Registry System (SRUK) on 9 July 2026 as a facility for carbon transactions in both domestic and international markets. Unlike the mandatory Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) targets, the SRUK platform is intended for business entities wishing to sell carbon units resulting from their decarbonisation efforts.
“SRUK is a platform for selling carbon from our country to the domestic or international market. Two markets. The domestic or international sector. It is not for the NDC. The NDC is already mandatory, for our country. But SRUK is for a business entity to sell on a platform. This is the first time Indonesia has a carbon platform,” she asserted.
With this, the ministry hopes the regulation can be completed this year so that the carbon trading scheme in the energy sector can operate transparently and provide economic benefits for business actors.