| Full title | Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Nomor 8 Tahun 2026 tentang Pencabutan Peraturan Menteri Pertambangan Nomor 04/P/M/PERTAMB/1973 tentang Pencegahan dan Penanggulangan Pencemaran Perairan dalam Kegiatan Eksplorasi dan atau Eksploitasi Minyak dan Gas Bumi |
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| Citation | Permen ESDM 8/2026 |
| Jurisdiction | Indonesia |
| Enacted by | Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources |
| Signed | 10 June 2026 |
| Promulgated | 18 June 2026 |
| Effective | 18 June 2026 |
| Revokes | Permen Pertambangan 04/P/M/Pertamb/1973 (no replacement named) |
Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral 8/2026 is an Indonesian ministerial regulation that revoked a 1973 Mining Minister regulation on water pollution in oil and gas exploration and production. Its full title is Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Nomor 8 Tahun 2026 tentang Pencabutan Peraturan Menteri Pertambangan Nomor 04/P/M/PERTAMB/1973 tentang Pencegahan dan Penanggulangan Pencemaran Perairan dalam Kegiatan Eksplorasi dan atau Eksploitasi Minyak dan Gas Bumi (Regulation of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources on the Revocation of Mining Minister Regulation 04/P/M/PERTAMB/1973 on the Prevention and Mitigation of Water Pollution in Oil and Gas Exploration and Exploitation). It was signed on 10 June 2026 and promulgated on 18 June 2026 in the State Gazette (Berita Negara) 2026 No. 398, taking effect on promulgation.[1]
The regulation contains two articles. The first revokes the 1973 regulation and declares it no longer in force; the second provides for entry into force. It sets no substitute standard, names no instrument to take the old rule's place, and contains no transitional or saving provisions.[2] Its only stated reason is that the 1973 rule no longer corresponded to developments in the law and in the conduct of the oil and gas business.[3]
The revocation bears on the water resources law of Indonesia and on mining and energy regulation in Indonesia: it removes a water-protection rule from the sectoral body of oil and gas regulation, leaving water quality in the sector to the general environmental instruments and to the environment ministry's effluent standards for oil and gas. In form it follows an earlier two-article revocation issued by the same ministry in January 2026. CRPG's regulatory tracker reported the revocation in July 2026.[4]
The revoked instrument was issued in 1973 by the Minister of Mining (Menteri Pertambangan) and dealt with the prevention and mitigation of pollution of waters (pencemaran perairan) arising from oil and gas exploration and exploitation.[1:1] The rule itself is not held in the CRPG regulation vault, and its content is known here only from the title the 2026 regulation gives it. The considerations of the 2026 regulation state that the 1973 rule was no longer consistent with legal developments and with the dynamics of oil and gas business activity and therefore needed to be revoked.[3:1]
The regulation is issued under Pasal 17 ayat (3) of the 1945 Constitution; Law 22/2001 on oil and gas, as last amended by Undang-Undang 6/2023 on job creation; Law 39/2008 on state ministries, as amended by Undang-Undang 61/2024; Peraturan Presiden 169/2024 on the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources; and Permen ESDM 12/2025 on the ministry's organisation.[3:2]
Pasal 1 provides that Mining Minister Regulation 04/P/M/Pertamb/1973 on the Prevention and Mitigation of Water Pollution in Oil and Gas Exploration and Exploitation is revoked and declared no longer in force. Pasal 2 provides that the regulation takes effect on the date of its promulgation, and the closing formula directs its placement in the State Gazette.[2:1] The regulation was signed by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Bahlil Lahadalia, and promulgated by the Directorate General of Legislation of the Ministry of Law.[1:2]
Because the instrument revokes without replacing, the control of water pollution from oil and gas activities rests on other instruments. CRPG's regulatory tracker described the measure as part of a clean-up of the ministry's regulatory stock, and stated that pollution control in the sector remained with the general environmental protection regime and with the sector's risk-based licensing standards.[4:1] Under the environmental regime, PP 22/2021, the government regulation on the conduct of environmental protection and management, covers the protection and management of water quality and of marine water quality.[5] Effluent quality standards for oil and gas exploration and production had been set by the environment ministry in Permen LH 19/2010, whose first annex covers that activity.[6] The environmental approval chain that conditions such activities is treated at environmental approval in Indonesia.
On the energy ministry's side, the standards for business activities under risk-based licensing in the energy and mineral resources sector were issued as Permen ESDM 7/2026, signed on 8 June 2026, two days before the revocation.[7] In form, Permen ESDM 8/2026 follows Permen ESDM 2/2026, signed on 13 January 2026, which in two articles revoked a 2009 ministerial regulation on study permits, promotion examinations and the use of academic titles by the ministry's civil servants, on the ground that it no longer corresponded to legal developments and organisational needs.[8]
K102 · Work URI /akn/id/act/permen-esdm/2026/8 · RegVault PERMENESDM_8_2026[P] Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Republik Indonesia Nomor 8 Tahun
2026, title and closing formula (Ditetapkan di Jakarta pada tanggal 10 Juni 2026;
Diundangkan di Jakarta pada tanggal 18 Juni 2026). Berita Negara 2026 No. 398. regulation_id
PERMENESDM_8_2026. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
[P] Permen ESDM 8/2026, Pasal 1 and Pasal 2. regulation_id PERMENESDM_8_2026. ↩︎ ↩︎
[P] Permen ESDM 8/2026, Menimbang huruf a–b and Mengingat angka 1–5.
regulation_id PERMENESDM_8_2026. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
[E] "Revocation of a 1973 Oil and Gas Water-Pollution Rule: PERMENESDM 8/2026", CRPG regulatory tracker, crpg.id, 10 July 2026. https://crpg.id/revocation-of-a-1973-oil-and-gas-water-pollution-rule-permenesdm-8-2026/ (free sign-in required on crpg.id) The post carries a notice that it is AI-generated; it is cited for the record of the development, not for its legal content. ↩︎ ↩︎
[P] Peraturan Pemerintah No. 22 Tahun 2021 tentang Penyelenggaraan Perlindungan dan
Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup, Pasal 2 huruf b and huruf d, and Bab III. regulation_id
PP_22_2021. ↩︎
[P] Peraturan Menteri Negara Lingkungan Hidup No. 19 Tahun 2010 tentang Baku Mutu Air
Limbah bagi Usaha dan/atau Kegiatan Minyak dan Gas serta Panas Bumi, Pasal 2 ayat (1) huruf a
and Lampiran I. regulation_id PERMENLH_19_2010. ↩︎
[P] Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Nomor 7 Tahun 2026 tentang Standar
Kegiatan Usaha pada Penyelenggaraan Perizinan Berusaha Berbasis Risiko Sektor Energi dan Sumber
Daya Mineral, closing formula (Ditetapkan di Jakarta pada tanggal 8 Juni 2026).
regulation_id PERMENESDM_7_2026. ↩︎
[P] Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Nomor 2 Tahun 2026 tentang Pencabutan
Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Nomor 09 Tahun 2009, Menimbang huruf a,
Pasal 1, Pasal 2 and closing formula (Ditetapkan di Jakarta pada tanggal 13 Januari 2026).
regulation_id PERMENESDM_2_2026. ↩︎