On February 18, 2025, the Indonesian House of Representatives approved a new amendment to the country’s Law on Mineral and Coal Mining (the Mining Law). The amendment must next be approved in a plenary session before becoming law.
The 2025 amendment, the fourth since the law’s inception in 2009, seeks to improve access to mineral resources for small companies and religious groups and increase the domestic utilization of mineral resources, among other changes. Through this amendment, the government hopes to boost the domestic mining and mineral processing sectors, provide opportunities to smaller and local players, and attract more foreign…