At the end of 2015, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources issued Permen No. 43 of 2015 concerning Procedures for Evaluating the Issuance of Mineral and Coal Mining Business Licenses (IUP). This Ministerial Regulation is at the same time a bright spot for the implementation of an IUP evaluation which is now the authority of the provincial government following with Law No. 23 of 2014 concerning Regional Government. Who is authorized to conduct an IUP evaluation? How will the IUP evaluation be carried out? How to follow up, will it be revoked or just collapsed?
