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Cases / Mining · Indonesia · 2025

Indonesia's 2025 mining law change opens mining areas to religious groups without tender

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Did nature suffer? Not measured.
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A February 2025 revision of Indonesia's mining law allowed religious organisations and universities to receive mining areas without a tender. The sources reviewed do not show which areas were allocated or their environmental effects.

What?
Indonesia's revised mining law allows religious organisations and universities to receive mining areas without tender. Bisnis.com
Where?
Indonesia (national law) Bisnis.com
When?
February 2025 Bisnis.com
Who?
Gained
  • Religious organisations and universities — Mining areas allocated without tender Bisnis.com
Lost
None on record
Harmed
None on record
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Revision of the mining law allowing non-tender allocation of mining areas. Bisnis.com
6 of 6 questions answered from the record

What happened

The record, in order.

A revision of Indonesia's mining law, passed in February 2025, allowed religious organisations and universities to receive mining areas without tender.

Bisnis.com's headline described the change as an unlimited mining quota for mass organisations (ormas), including former coal-contract land.

    In court and with insurers

    Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.

    Lawsuits and rulings

    No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.

    Insurers

    No insurer decision on record.

    What we don't know

    Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.

    Nature

    • Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.

    Record

    • None on record The sources reviewed do not name the religious organisations or universities that received mining areas.
    • None on record The size of the areas allocated and their environmental effects are not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Did the harm stop?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Who paid?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Sources

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