Oil and Gas Testing Center Organisation Rules Amended: PERMENESDM 10/2026

The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has amended the organisation and work procedures of its oil and gas testing centre through Peraturan Menteri ESDM Nomor 10 Tahun 2026, the Ministerial Regulation of Energy and Mineral Resources No. 10 of 2026. The measure amends Peraturan Menteri ESDM Nomor 5 Tahun 2022, the 2022 regulation on the Organisation and Work Procedures of the Centre for Oil and Gas Testing. The amending regulation was enacted in Jakarta on 17 June 2026 and promulgated through placement in the State Gazette, and it revises specific provisions while leaving the rest of the 2022 framework intact.

Issue

The Centre for Oil and Gas Testing is a technical implementation unit within the ministry that supports the oil and gas sector through testing and related technical work. Its organisation and work procedures were set by the 2022 Ministerial Regulation, which established the unit's structure, its leadership positions, and the division of tasks among its parts. The 2026 amendment revises that regulation rather than replacing it, adjusting specific provisions while leaving the rest of the framework in place. Amendments of this kind keep a technical unit's governing text aligned with current administrative arrangements without disturbing its operational mandate.

Key Provisions

The amendment operates as a change to the existing organisation-and-work-procedures regulation. Pasal 24, as amended, addresses the appointment of the unit's leadership: the Head (Kepala), the Heads of Division (Kepala Bagian), and the Heads of Subdivision (Kepala Subbagian) referred to in Pasal 23 are appointed and dismissed by the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources. The provision places the authority to fill and vacate these positions with the Minister, setting a clear line of appointment for the officials who lead the centre and its internal divisions.

Pasal II states that the regulation takes effect on the date of its promulgation and directs its placement in the State Gazette so that it is publicly known. As an amending instrument, it changes the identified provisions of Ministerial Regulation 5 of 2022 while the unchanged parts of that regulation continue to govern the centre's structure and functions. The regulation does not dissolve the unit or alter its core testing mandate; it revises how the amended provisions read within the standing framework.

Because the measure sits inside the ministry's own organisational rules, its reach is internal to the structure of the centre rather than directed at businesses in the sector. It works alongside other recent ministry measures that touch staffing and administration, including the performance allowance rules for ministry staff, and it forms part of the same organisational rulebook that governs how the ministry's technical units are led and staffed.

Regulatory Context

Amendments to organisation-and-work-procedure regulations keep a ministry's internal structure current as roles, reporting lines, and appointment arrangements are adjusted. By fixing in Pasal 24 that the Minister appoints and dismisses the centre's Head and its division and subdivision heads, the regulation states plainly where the personnel authority for these positions lies. The centre continues to operate as a technical unit of the ministry, and the amendment refines the governing text rather than changing the unit's testing role in the oil and gas sector.

The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources signed the regulation on 17 June 2026, and it was recorded in the State Gazette on promulgation. PERMENESDM 10/2026 took effect on that date and now reads together with Ministerial Regulation 5 of 2022 as the governing framework for the centre.

Read the full regulation in the CRPG Law Database.

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