1. Gas Development Master Plan
Steering Committee Meeting – 28 March 2013
Draft Policy Note 6: Permitting and Approvals Process

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• The two main barriers of the midstream and downstream
sector are the overlapping of laws and regulations and
the lack of coordination between the central and regional
governments in law-making.
• Overlapping laws and regulations create uncertainty for
investors on how to comply with the applicable laws and
regulations. Furthermore, in practice, this overlap delays
license and approval procedures.
• Indonesia needs regulatory reforms to reduce issues such
as, overlapping jurisdictions between regulatory bodies,
departments and ministries as well as to simplify the
licensing procedures for more efficient application
procedures to stimulate investors to become active in
Indonesia’s midstream to downstream gas sector.
Permitting and Approvals Process

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• Create a coordination system to manage consistency and
to avoid overlapping of any laws and regulations issued
by central and regional governments or any other related
government bodies
• Create an online system to monitor the process of
licenses and approvals applied for by the investor to be
conducted in accordance with the regulations in a timely,
fair and clean manner.
• Simplifying document submission for licenses and
approvals by accepting soft-copy form, minimizing
double submission of similar documents required for
every license and approval applied for.
Recommendations