It’s Official, RKAB Validity Set to One Year

Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) has officially issued Ministerial Regulation (Permen) ESDM No. 17 of 2025 on the Procedures for Preparing, Submitting, and Approving Work Plans and Budgets (RKAB) as well as the Procedures for Reporting the Implementation of Mineral and Coal Mining Business Activities.

This regulation was signed by ESDM Minister Bahlil Lahadalia on September 30, 2025. Under the new rule, RKAB submissions must now be made entirely through an integrated information system and will be valid for one year, no longer three years as under the previous regulation.

Article 4 paragraph (1) stipulates that holders of Exploration-stage Mining Business Licenses (IUP), Exploration-stage Special Mining Business Licenses (IUPK), Operation Production-stage IUP, Operation Production-stage IUPK, or IUPK as a Continuation of Contract/Agreement Operations must submit an Exploration-stage RKAB or Operation Production-stage RKAB to the Minister or the Governor according to their authority, under the following conditions:

a. no later than 30 (thirty) calendar days from the issuance of the Exploration-stage IUP, Exploration-stage IUPK, Operation Production-stage IUP, Operation Production-stage IUPK, or IUPK as a Continuation of Contract/Agreement Operations, including its extension, in the current year; and

b. no earlier than October 1 and no later than November 15 each year for the following year’s Exploration-stage IUP, Exploration-stage IUPK, Operation Production-stage IUP, Operation Production-stage IUPK, or IUPK as a Continuation of Contract/Agreement Operations, for approval.

Furthermore, Article 19 paragraph (1) states that holders of Exploration-stage IUP or Exploration-stage IUPK are required to prepare and submit a Periodic Report every three (3) months.

This includes: implementation of the RKAB, quality of mining wastewater, statistics on mine accidents and hazardous incidents, statistics on occupational diseases, plans and realization of manpower utilization and training costs, implementation of reclamation, and internal audits of the Mineral and Coal Mining safety management system.

Meanwhile, holders of Operation Production-stage IUP, Operation Production-stage IUPK, or IUPK as a Continuation of Contract/Agreement Operations must prepare and submit a Periodic Report every three (3) months as referred to in Article 18 paragraph (1) letter a to the Minister or Governor according to their authority, covering reports that include:

a. implementation of the RKAB;

b. quality of mining wastewater;

c. conservation;

d. statistics on mine accidents and hazardous incidents;

e. statistics on occupational diseases;

f. plans and realization of manpower utilization and training costs;

g. implementation of reclamation;

h. implementation of maintenance and servicing of boundary markers;

i. plans and realization of mine water management, and implementation of geotechnical monitoring;

j. plans and realization of mining equipment utilization;

k. internal audits of the Mineral and Coal Mining safety management system;

l. implementation of tax treatment and/or non-tax state revenue obligations for holders of IUPK as a Continuation of Contract/Agreement Operations for coal commodities; and

m. Development and/or Utilization activities for holders of IUPK as a Continuation of Contract/Agreement Operations for coal commodities.

For violations, the government may impose administrative sanctions ranging from temporary suspension to license revocation. During the transition, the government is providing six months to refine the digital RKAB and reporting system.

RKABs for 2025 that were approved by the Minister or Governor according to their authority prior to the promulgation of this Ministerial Regulation will remain recognized as the basis for conducting mineral and coal mining business activities in 2025.

However, RKABs for 2026 and RKABs for 2027 that were approved by the Minister or Governor prior to the promulgation of this Ministerial Regulation must be resubmitted and adjusted through the information system in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation.

Previously, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) targeted that starting October 1, 2025, all RKAB applications for holders of mineral and coal (minerba) mining business permits must be submitted through the MinerbaOne application.

Director General of Minerals and Coal at the ESDM Ministry, Tri Winarno, explained that the Ministry is currently socializing the use of the application. The RKAB module in MinerbaOne will be launched as soon as the ministerial regulation is officially issued.

“Our hope is that on October 1 this MinerbaOne can truly be used by business actors and by us here to submit the 2026 RKAB,” Tri said during the Socialization of the Implementation of the MinerbaOne Application, quoted Thursday (9/25/2025).

Tri explained that companies which have already received RKAB approval are still required to reapply for the 2026 RKAB through MinerbaOne.

The ongoing socialization focuses on account creation, filling in feasibility studies (FS), and environmental impact assessments (AMDAL), so that when the RKAB module is officially active, the process can run smoothly.

“Our hope is that during this period the socialization and the creation of accounts, followed by completing the FS and AMDAL, can proceed smoothly,” he said.

Source: https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20251007100737-4-673489/resmi-terbit-rkab-pertambangan-berlaku-satu-tahun

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