Glance of Rulings in Indonesia in the Mining Sectors

Indonesia is now facing a new era of democracy. However it appears that we are in a rather dilemma situation, since it appears that everything is expensive in Indonesia including education and health treatment. Everything that you buy is expensive.

If you happen to be in the middle class, then you still have the chance to develop your money strength cash in. But if your just coming from the below class, then it really will be difficult for you to school your children as well as health treatment to maintain your health condition.

Relating to the development of legal structure, it appears that there are many products of law ruling being established and introduced, these recent years, which includes that every rulings issued by the DPR (Indonesian People’s Parliament) together with the Government shall be subject to the Court Constitution to ensure that it does not violate the more higher level of Law which is the Indonesian Constitution Act.

For instance when the new Oil and Gas was being introduced, there was a Court Constitution Decision which was launched which states that the Domestic Market Obligation which is the obligation of the Oil and Gas Contractor’s to contribute or sell its portion of Oil Entitlement to Domestic Market which words was mentioned “maximum” 25% of its Portion of Oil Share was being decided by the Court Constitution to drop the words “maximum”.

During my practice as Business Corporate Lawyer in the field of General Mining, there frequently appears to exist overlapping rulings between the inter departmental rulings among others between the Laws and Rulings of the Department of Forestry and the Department of Mining and Energy.

There often also raises overlapping Rulings between the Law Products from the Local Government and the Central Government, whereas the Local Governments Ruling sometimes are in contradictory with the Ruling form the Central Government.

Thus no coordination seems to frequently appear between the Local Government and the Central Government, and among the various Departments who sometimes are only looking from their angle and perspectives.

These situation of courses resulted confuse ness on the Mining Contractors who has been granted a Working Area by the Government to mine their minerals deposits, which part of the Mining Area is overlapping for instances with the Forestry Area.

If we faced such problems, in practice there will then be a meeting which will be held by the inter departmental officials, in the efforts to try to solve such overlapping problems.

Accordingly, before the Various Departments and Contract Area are making its rulings or granting a Forestry Rights which may be overlapping with another Activities such as Mining Activities, it is really strongly advisable that coordination between the Departments must have been prior conducted to avoid such overlapping obstacles.

Agung Supomo Suleiman – Partner of Suleiman Agung & Co http://www.sacolaw.blogspot.com

Email : agungsacolaw@telkom.net

Mobile Phone : 0816830647

Promoting your Positive Contribution

My hobby is to be independent and free. But Freedom is not enough, because in reality there is no free lunch in this world. Thus the purpose of me Creating My Own Law Firm was actually starting to be a free man. And thanks to GOD the ALL Mighty, I have manage to survive and be independent for more than 10 Years since I June 2008. And the real problem to attack is cash flow problems. Because every month you need to have some income or cash in order to feed your family and also the supporting staff in my Office.

Frankly, speaking I am more of an independent type in which I wanted to have the freedom in setting my working time schedule. And I have manage to establish this flexible time for more than 10 Years. At this present moment, I have already establish my blog, where I have inserted some of the writings of my life experience, travel experience, experiencing to be independent in running my Law firm for more than 10 Years, and also writing of my professional experience being a lawyer particularly, serving business clients mostly in the Oil and Gas Business, Coal Mining Sectors, Hotel Sectors, either in supporting their business from the legal aspects such as drafting their business contracts, reviewing and advising their business transactions, advising the rules and regulations as well as defending their business legal rights in the Arbitration or Court.

Well, through this Blog, so called Agung’s Note Blog, in the development, I have manage to starting linking it with the services and the products which they can offer, either through advertisements or through selling their products.

Thus, I hope that Agung's Note Blog may also be useful in promoting my Client’s or any party’s Services and Products either to their Customers or to the management, directors, employees, who needs some supports for helping to boost up their carrier path in their working offices or sites, working fields starting from printers, computers, telecommunications accessories, tools and hard wares, safety shoes and other significant products.

And If they need some refreshing and break, there also advertisements of hotels and nice places to visit and relax your minds from the day to day high tension activities and under pressure overloaded works and assignments.

When I was working as the in-house Legal Counsel in big MNC Companies, I am also aware that promotion of what the respective MNC Companies are doing, or had continuously contributing to the society surrounding their working locations, needs some sorts of promotion or public awareness and publications not always in a formal way or manner, but in a more non - formal manner and way such as through Blogs or Websites Sites which may now be playing an important role to promote their positive continuous contribution.

Based on such experience My Agung’s Note Blog is ready to assist such MNC Companies, or any companies who are seeking ways to promote their contribution to the society.

Based on the above circumstances if your Companies are interesting to put your ads or publications in my Agung’s Note Blog, please feel free to contact me.

Agung S.Suleiman HP: 0816830647

Email : agungsacolaw@telkom.net