Indonesia

Population (World Bank): 277,534,122 (2023)

Metal/Ore Exports (% of Total Merchandise Exports, World Bank): 8.5% (2022)

Petroleum Production (Million barrels per day, EIA): 867 Mb/d (2024)

Human Development Index (World Rank, UNDP): 112

2021 Resource Governance Index Score (NRGI): Not Available

EITI Status: Fairly Low

Link to key economic information (Atlas of Economic Complexity)

Policy documents that include local content relevant provisions:

• Mineral and Coal Mining Law (Amendments), 2020 (Indonesian)

• Law on Job Creation ("Omnibus Law"), 2020 (Indonesian)

• SKK Migas Work Guidelines on the Procurement of Goods or Services, 2017 (Indonesian)

• Rules of Origin of Indonesia, 2014

• Regulations on the Use of Domestic Products for Upstream business of Oil and Natural Gas, 2013

• Implementation of Mineral and Coal Mining Activities, 2012 (Paywall)

• Mineral and Coal Mining Law, 2009

• Regulation on Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities, 2004

• Law No. 22/2001 on Petroleum and Natural Gas, 2001

Local Content Relevant News:

• July 2025 - SKK Migas records strong domestic content performance, surpassing 2025 targets

• July 2025 - Medco launches tender for latest gas project

• June 2025 - LONGi Launches Strategic Solar Panel Manufacturing Project in Indonesia

• June 2025 - Indonesia’s Biggest Solar Panel Factory Begins Operation in Kendal SEZ

• August 2024 - Indonesia eases local content requirement for solar power plants to 20%, official says

• May 2024 – Sabah launches local content council to boost participation in oil and gas sector

• May 2024 - Industry Ministry to ease local content rule on renewable projects

• March 2024 – Pertamina named SOE with the highest local content

• February 2024 – Local content requirement a bottleneck for Indonesia’s energy transition push

• January 2024 – BP initiates tender for Tangguh LNG development in West Papua

• January 2021 – EU Files WTO Panel Request Against Illegal Export Restrictions by Indonesia on Raw Materials for Stainless Steel

• July 2020 – Indonesia Moving up the Mining Value Chain - Report

• March 2020 – Indonesia: New Regulation on the Procurement of Goods and Services in the State-owned Enterprises Sector

• July 2019 – Indonesia will Ban the Exportation of Raw Mineral Ore by 2022

• December 2016 – Indonesia plans shake-up of upstream oil and gas contracts

Analysis and Case Studies:

• Sahla (2022) - Engaging communities in a just transition: EITI launches new project in Colombia, Ghana and Indonesia

• Prasetio and Kumalasari (2021) – Local Content Policy in Indonesia Oil and Gas Industry (Paywall)

• Olle Östensson (2020) – WIDER Working Paper: The Potential of Extractive Industries as Anchor Investments for Broader Regional Development

• Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2020) – Local Content: Indonesia – Petroleum

• Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development (2018) – Local Content Guidance Case Study Indonesia: Downstream Linkages

• Eve Warburton (2017) – The Life and Death of Indonesia’s Mineral Export Ban

• UNCTAD (2017) – Using Trade Policy to Drive Value Addition: Lessons from Indonesia’s Ban on Nickel Exports

• Mining Technology (2017) – Arrested Development: Why Indonesia Lifted its Mining Export Ban

• Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2015) – Local Content: Indonesia – Mining

• Ngoasong (2014) – How international oil and gas companies respond to local content policies in petroleum-producing developing countries: A narrative enquiry (Paywall)

• IM4DC (2013) – Mining and Development in Indonesia: An Overview of the Regulatory Framework and Policies