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Indonesia

The NCEA has supported Indonesia with strategic environmental planning after the 2004 tsnunami. From 2006 we gave support to the implementation of the ESIA system and legislation and the development of SEA. Over the past decade we had various ad hoc cooperation activities with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The intensity of the co-operation has been scaled down as the relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia transitioned from an aid to trade focus. 

Just before our relationship temporary ended in 2021, the NCEA provided support to strengthening the country’s coastal defences, including an independent advice on SEA scoping for the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development (NCICD) Plan. Support on ESIA related to recommendations on Screening and Scoping for overall planning and project development of interventions to improve flood management and included the training of governmental staff.
Resuming our activities since 2023, we now focus on collaboration with the Blue Deal Programme for integrated coastal development, and the proposed NL-financed intervention strategy on climate mitigation efforts promoting offshore wind, floating solar energy development and green hydrogen initiatives.

Legislation in Indonesia

The Bahasa Indonesian term for EIA is AMDAL. Indonesia established a legal basis for EIA in 1982, and has revised its impact assessment system several times since then, both to reflect institutional changes, and in response to developments in the understanding of EIA. Detailed procedural requirements were first put in place in 1986, further refined in 1993, and amended in 1999, 2001, 2006, 2012, and most recently in 2020, when the Job Creation Law (JCL, also referred to as Omnibus Law) was introduced to bring a more “corporate-friendly” approach to environmental legislation.

The government passed this Omnibus Law in recognition of the need to improve competitiveness, enhance the investment climate, eliminate red tape and create new jobs. Alongside the 2009 Environmental Protection and Management Law, it is commonly referred to as the Environment Law. The Environment Law increases the possibility to take action against infringements of the EIA procedure, introduces a widely applicable requirement to carry out SEA for policies, plans and programmes, and includes a revised regulation for environmental permitting, also revising the EIA procedure.

EIA falls under the responsibility of the Ministry of Environment (Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup – KLH).

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