INDONESIA'S NEW REGULATION ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGN MANPOWER: OFFERING SOME CLARITY WHILE RAISING QUESTIONS

Issue 10, April 2025 | The Indonesian National Board of Arbitration (BANI) has introduced important updates in the 2025 BANI Rules, including an emergency arbitration procedure for urgent interim relief.

To date, the Indonesian government and institutions have largely remained entrenched in an endemic culture of corruption. Despite major victories before the court by the Corruption Eradication Commission (“KPK”) in recent years, crimes of corruption (especially bribery and gratification) remain a major problem at every level of government institution.

The Indonesian competition authority, the Indonesian Commission for the Supervision of Business Competition (the “KPPU”) issued Regulation No.4 of 2019 on the Procedures for the Supervision and Handling of Partnership Cases (“Reg 4/2019”).

The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (“MEMR”) recently issued MEMR Regulation No. 48 of 2017 on the Supervision of the Implementation of Business Activities in the Field of Energy and Mineral Resources (“Reg. 48/2017”) revoking and replacing the previous MEMR Regulation No. 42 of 2017 (“Reg. 42/2017”).