Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral 8/2025 (Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Nomor 8 Tahun 2025 tentang Manajemen Energi) is the Indonesian ministerial regulation that governs energy management (manajemen energi) by energy providers and large energy users. It was signed by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Bahlil Lahadalia, on 7 March 2025 and took effect on its promulgation on 13 March 2025.^[1][2] It implements Pasal 12, 49, 53 and 61 of PP 33/2023 on energy conservation, and replaced the 2012 energy management regulation, Permen ESDM 14/2012.^[3][4]

The regulation makes energy management mandatory above annual consumption thresholds of 6,000 tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE) for energy providers, 4,000 TOE for transport and industrial users, and 500 TOE for users in the building sector. Obliged entities must appoint a certified energy manager, run an energy efficiency programme, carry out an energy audit at least once every three years, implement the audit's recommendations within three years, and report to the minister every year.^[5][6][7]

It also provides for the financing of audit recommendations, the certification of energy managers and auditors, incentives and graduated disincentives, and the use of energy management results under the carbon economic value mechanism.^{[8][9][10][11]} The regulation belongs to the field described at mining and energy regulation in Indonesia; CRPG's regulatory tracker published an analysis of it in December 2025.^[12]

¶ Background

The national energy policy of 2014, PP 79/2014, directed the government to set energy conservation guidelines including energy management obligations, with audits, for energy users.^[13] Energy management had been regulated since 2012 by Permen ESDM 14/2012, and the competency standard for energy managers in industry and buildings by Permen ESDM 41/2015. Permen ESDM 8/2025 revoked both.^[4:1] Its preamble states a single purpose: to implement four provisions of PP 33/2023 on energy conservation. Its legal bases include the State Ministries Law as amended in 2024, PP 33/2023 and Perpres 169/2024 on the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.^[3:1]

¶ Scope and obligations

Pasal 1 defines energy management as integrated activity to control energy consumption so that energy is used effectively and efficiently, through structured technical and economical measures to minimise energy use, including energy for production, raw materials and supporting materials. It defines significant energy use (Pemanfaatan Energi Signifikan, SEU) as energy use with large consumption or a large potential for improving energy performance.^[14]

Pasal 2 ayat (2) makes energy management compulsory for four groups: energy providers using 6,000 TOE or more a year; transport-sector users of 4,000 TOE or more; industrial users of 4,000 TOE or more; and building-sector users of 500 TOE or more. Entities below those thresholds may carry out energy management voluntarily, and energy management by central and regional governments as users follows other legislation.^[5:1]

Under Pasal 3, energy management consists of appointing an energy manager, preparing an energy efficiency programme, carrying out periodic energy audits, and implementing the audit recommendations. The highest official of the organisation appoints the energy manager, who must hold a competency certificate and leads an energy management team drawn from every function that uses energy. The team sets an energy policy, plans, implements, monitors and evaluates energy management, and improves energy performance continuously; its planning covers risks and opportunities, an energy review, energy performance indicators, an energy baseline, and objectives and targets.^[6:1] The annual monitoring report goes to the head of the organisation.^[6:2]

¶ Audits and reporting

Periodic energy audits are carried out by certified internal or external auditors, with preference for internal auditors, at least once every three years and on at least one item of significant-use equipment. Audit recommendations are classed as technically feasible or cost-feasible; the latter are graded as no-cost, low-cost (payback under two years), medium-cost (two to four years) or high-cost (more than four years), and must be implemented within three years of the audit.^[7:1]

Pasal 17 requires obliged entities to report on energy management to the minister every year, by 30 June of the following year, through the ministry's electronic reporting system, using the formats in Lampiran I, which differ for industry, buildings and transport.^[7:2][15] Six months after the regulation was issued, the national energy policy of PP 40/2025 provided that energy users above a set consumption level must carry out energy management and report on it annually by the end of the first quarter of the following year.^[16]

¶ Financing and certification

Energy management is financed by the obliged entity itself. To implement audit recommendations it may use other lawful sources, namely energy service companies, the financial services industry or other businesses, on the basis of the audit recommendations with a financial feasibility study or an investment-grade energy audit. Financing from an energy service company takes the form of an energy saving performance contract, with measurement and verification of energy performance by a certified verifier.^[8:1]

Competency certificates for energy managers, energy auditors and measurement and verification analysts are issued by professional certification bodies licensed by the National Professional Certification Agency (Badan Nasional Sertifikasi Profesi). A body seeking a licence in the field of energy conservation needs the minister's support, must register in the ministry's electronic system, and reports on its certification work every six months.^[9:1]

¶ Incentives, disincentives and carbon value

The minister may give fiscal or non-fiscal incentives, such as training, certificates of energy saving, or energy audits, to entities that report as required and meet the efficiency success criteria for three consecutive years. Until a benchmark is set by ministerial decision, success means an improvement in energy performance of at least 1 per cent on the previous year.^[10:1] An entity that fails to comply with Pasal 4 to 17 receives up to three written warnings, each of at most one month; if it still does not comply, the minister announces its name in the mass media, and one month later recommends to the relevant minister, governor or regent or mayor that incentives it has received be withdrawn.^[10:2]

Pasal 30 provides that entities carrying out energy management as a climate change mitigation action may benefit through the energy-sector carbon economic value mechanism, and that energy management activity may be used for the issuance of greenhouse gas emission reduction certificates, the subject of carbon trading and climate regulation in Indonesia.^[11:1]

¶ Supervision and transition

The minister guides and supervises energy management and the certification bodies, through officials who supervise energy conservation.^[17] Energy management carried out before the regulation took effect is recognised under it, and reporting for 2024 followed the earlier regulation; licensed certification bodies had one year to register electronically.^[18] The regulation has 41 articles in nine chapters and two annexes, and was published in Berita Negara 2025 No. 194.^[2:1]

¶ See also

• Perpres 22/2017
• Permen ESDM 12/2017

¶ External links

• Permen ESDM No. 8 Tahun 2025 (JDIH BPK)
• CRPG: Sectoral Energy Consumption Thresholds and Mandatory Certification: Permen ESDM 8/2025 (crpg.id, 5 December 2025) (free sign-in required on crpg.id)

¶ References