• 2020 Amendment of the Mineral and Coal Mining Law

    The Government recently issued Law No.3 of 2020 that amends Law No.4 of 2009 on Mineral and Coal Mining. There are positive and negative implications of this amendment. One of the main reasons behind this amendment to the 2009 Mining Law is to make the law consistent with several Constitutional Court’s decisions that require mineral…

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  • WTO Appellate Report – Tobacco Plain Packaging

    On 9 June, the WTO Appellate Body issued its report vindicating Australia’s Tobacco-Plain Packaging measure. A decision that would support worldwide tobacco control public health measures. The AB essentially confirmed the Panel’s Report and considered Australia’s TPP measure is not a form of an ‘unjustifiable encumbrance of trademarks’ under art 20 of TRIPS and not…

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  • Indonesia Urgently Needs Rules for Flexible Working Arrangement

    In the midst of this Covid-19 pandemic, the time is now for Indonesia to create legal framework for flexible working arrangement. Once upon a time, there’s a working father who got into argument with his boss. The boss asked the employee to be punctual. He should be at the office at 8.30 am every day.…

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