Updated Implementing Framework for Mining Business Activities Introduced: Certain Business Actors under the Priority Scheme Now Required to Submit Value-Added and Downstreaming Plans

The government previously issued Regulation No. 39 of 2025 (“ Regulation 39/2025 ”), which is now serving as the Second Amendment to Regulation No. 96 of 2021 on the Implementation of Mineral and Coal Mining Business Activities and which was previously amended for the first time by Regulation No. 25 of 2024 (collectively referred to as “ Regulation 96/2021 ”). [1] Among other revisions that have been introduced, Regulation 39/2025 mandates that several of its provisions must be further elaborated upon through the issuance of a new Implementing Regulation by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (“ Minister ”).