Energy Ministry Employee Ethics and Conduct Code: PERMENESDM 9/2026

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has issued Peraturan Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral Nomor 9 Tahun 2026 (Kode Etik dan Kode Perilaku Pegawai Kementerian Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral — Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct for Employees of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources). The regulation sets the standards of attitude, behaviour, and conduct expected of ministry employees in carrying out their duties and in daily life, and builds a structure around reporting, examination, and prevention.

Issue

The ministry covers a wide organisational field, reaching beyond its core directorates to attached bodies including the Secretariat General of the National Energy Council, the regulator for fuel supply and gas pipeline transport (BPH Migas), and the Aceh Oil and Gas Management Agency (BPMA). PERMENESDM 9/2026 places employees across these units under a single written code tied to the state civil apparatus (ASN) core values, rather than to scattered conduct expectations.

Key Provisions

Pasal 1 sets the definitions that frame the code. A Ministry Employee (Pegawai Kementerian) is an ASN or other employee appointed to a position and working full time within the ministry's organisation. The code itself is the guide to attitude, behaviour, and conduct, while a Violation (Pelanggaran) is any speech, writing, or act that runs contrary to it. The same article defines the roles that appear in enforcement: the Reporter (Pelapor), the Examined Employee (Terperiksa), witnesses, experts, formal complaints (Pengaduan) supported by evidence, and Findings (Temuan) drawn from supervision or monitoring.

The substantive conduct rules are organised around the ASN core values. Pasal 14, tied to the value of loyalty, lists the required conduct in detail: full loyalty to Pancasila, the 1945 Constitution, the unitary state, and the government; placing the interests of the nation and the organisation above personal interest; obeying all laws and regulations; upholding the oath of office; and guarding the ministry's image in formal and informal forums at home and abroad. The same article states specific personal-conduct rules, including not wearing piercings except on the earlobe for female employees or for religious reasons, not displaying tattoos on exposed parts of the body, using social media wisely, not displaying a hedonistic or flexing lifestyle as a matter of empathy toward colleagues and the public, and not entering venues regarded as improper such as prostitution or gambling sites except when on assignment. It also requires employees to protect confidential ministry data and to help prevent cyber threats.

Pasal 15 and Pasal 16 set out conduct under the value of adaptiveness, requiring employees to adjust quickly to change, to keep updating their knowledge and competence, to be proactive toward violations, and to stay open to constructive input while keeping innovation within the bounds of regulation and the ASN core values. Pasal 17 covers the collaborative value, requiring employees to give various parties the chance to contribute, to build trust and healthy communication in cooperation, to honour agreed commitments under cooperation agreements, and to act cooperatively with related work units. These behavioural provisions run alongside other recent ministry measures, including performance allowance rules for ministry staff and the repeal of civil-servant study-permit rules.

After the substantive standards, the regulation turns to the prevention of violations in a dedicated chapter (BAB IV), which sets the frame for the reporting and examination roles defined in Pasal 1.

Regulatory Context

The code applies to every ASN and other full-time employee across the ministry and its attached bodies, giving supervisors, reporters, and examined employees defined roles when a suspected violation arises. The detailed personal-conduct rules in Pasal 14 — covering social-media use, appearance, and public conduct — set out written expectations that employees can be measured against, with the enforcement roles in Pasal 1 and the prevention chapter providing the process around them. The code took effect on its promulgation and stands as the current conduct standard for ministry employees.

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