Awaiting `United' Acts

The upstream and downstream government regulations were signed by Megawati six days before her tenure ended—problems still unsolved.

October 26, 2004

THE Director-General for Oil & Gas at the Department of Energy, Iin Arifin Takhyan, heaved a huge sigh of relief. The government bill on upstream and downstream oil and gas business activities which he had worked on for the past two years was finally passed by Megawati Sukarnoputri. Actually it could have been done earlier; however, BP Migas raised an "interruption." Consequently, the bill was postponed until it was signed by Me

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