MEMR awaits approval to set up new directorate for non-tax revenue

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) has proposed to set up a new directorate in charge of non-tax state revenue, but the plan has yet to be approved by the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform, Bisnis Indonesia reported on Monday.

The paper quoted Secretary General of the MEMR Teguh Pamudji as saying that the ministry initially set the target to set up the new directorate in March of this year.

He explained that the directorate will have two directors, one in charge of supervising non-tax revenue from the oil and gas sector, and another in charge of non-tax revenue from the coal and mining sector. While the latter will be under the ministry?s Directorate General of Mineral and Coal, the former will be under the Ministry of Finance?s Directorate General of State Budget.

Teguh said that the new directorate is crucial amid lingering decline in non-tax revenue obtained by the state during the past several years. He said that many industry players have yet to fulfill their financial obligations to the state properly. As such, the new directorate will have to cooperate with governors and regents where the industry players are located.(*)