IT has happened often: weak regulations leading to governmental bureaucratic chaos. The confusion over the appointment of deputies to the Oil and Gas Regulatory Board (BP Migas) is the latest example.

Government Regulation No. 42/2002 on BP Migas is full of loopholes. For example, the BP Migas chairman is appointed by the president following an endorsement by the DPR. But this chairman holds no authority to appoint his deputies. This right appare