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HOUSE TO PASS BILL ON MINERAL RESOURCES INTO LAW NEXT WEEK
Jakarta, Dec 11 (ANTARA) - The House of Representatives (DPR) is expected to pass into law the Bill on Mineral Resources and Coal at a plenary session scheduled on Tuesday next week, a legislator said.
"We have agreed that the bill should be passed into law, at least during the plenary session on Tuesday, next week," Yasin Kara, member of the Special Committee in charge of drafting the bill, said here on Wednesday night.
He made the statement after a meeting with Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro.
Kara said although members of House factions involved in the drafting committee had not reached consensus, they had agreed that the bill should be passed into law next week.
The special committee meeting would discuss what had been agreed in the Working Committee of the Bill, but up to Wednesday night the working committee had not yet agreed the whole articles in the bill.
Thus, the special committee is scheduled to hold another meeting with the mineral resources minister on Thursday night.
Kara said that all problems with regard to the bill were expected to be solved by the special committee on Thursday night so that the plenary session next week would pass it into law.
If on Thursday night no consensus is to be reached, the special committee would conduct voting on controversial articles in the bill before being taken to the DPR's plenary session on Tuesday next week, he said.
He said that up to now all factions in the committee had not reached agreement on two problems, namely the length of period for the exploitation of a mining area reserved for the state (WPN) and the form of exploitation contract for the WPN area.
Kara said that all factions had agreed on the provisions in the bill regarding the transitional period where the term of old contract must be completed first.
When the term of the contract has ended and gets another extension, a coal mining firm involved is given a one-year deadline to follow the terms provided in the law on mineral resources and coal, while a mineral resources firm is given a five-year deadline. This is because the law requires the firm concerned to build a smelter facility.***8***
"We have agreed that the bill should be passed into law, at least during the plenary session on Tuesday, next week," Yasin Kara, member of the Special Committee in charge of drafting the bill, said here on Wednesday night.
He made the statement after a meeting with Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro.
Kara said although members of House factions involved in the drafting committee had not reached consensus, they had agreed that the bill should be passed into law next week.
The special committee meeting would discuss what had been agreed in the Working Committee of the Bill, but up to Wednesday night the working committee had not yet agreed the whole articles in the bill.
Thus, the special committee is scheduled to hold another meeting with the mineral resources minister on Thursday night.
Kara said that all problems with regard to the bill were expected to be solved by the special committee on Thursday night so that the plenary session next week would pass it into law.
If on Thursday night no consensus is to be reached, the special committee would conduct voting on controversial articles in the bill before being taken to the DPR's plenary session on Tuesday next week, he said.
He said that up to now all factions in the committee had not reached agreement on two problems, namely the length of period for the exploitation of a mining area reserved for the state (WPN) and the form of exploitation contract for the WPN area.
Kara said that all factions had agreed on the provisions in the bill regarding the transitional period where the term of old contract must be completed first.
When the term of the contract has ended and gets another extension, a coal mining firm involved is given a one-year deadline to follow the terms provided in the law on mineral resources and coal, while a mineral resources firm is given a five-year deadline. This is because the law requires the firm concerned to build a smelter facility.***8***
