Natural Resources, Mining, & Energy Law

East Kalimantan sits at the centre of Indonesia's extractive economy, and our practice reflects that geography. We advise on mining licensing — the Mining Business Licence (IUP) and its successor instruments — and on compliance under the Mineral and Coal Mining Law (UU Minerba), a regulatory regime that has undergone successive, substantial amendment and continues to shift the balance between central and regional authority over licensing, royalty obligations, and downstream processing requirements in ways that demand continuous monitoring rather than a one-time compliance review.

Our energy practice extends to oil and gas, power generation, and the renewable energy sector, advising on the licensing, land acquisition, and regulatory approvals that a resource project requires before a single extraction or construction activity may lawfully begin. We advise on the environmental and land-use obligations that intersect with resource development — environmental impact assessment (AMDAL), forest area release and borrow-use permits where a project sits within forest estate, and the reclamation and post-mining obligations that increasingly attract regulatory and public scrutiny — and we advise on the contractual arrangements between operators, contractors, and communities that a resource project's social licence to operate frequently depends on as much as its legal licence does.

Clients operating in this sector answer to multiple regulators simultaneously — the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, regional government, environmental authorities, and, where land is involved, the agrarian and forestry administration — and a decision that satisfies one regulator's requirements can create exposure with another if it is not coordinated across all of them. Our role is to ensure that commercial objectives are pursued without exposure on fronts the client has not anticipated, and in a sector where a single licensing defect can halt an operation that has already committed substantial capital, that coordination is not a courtesy but a necessity.