Raynaldo Sembiring, Isna Fatimah, Grita Anindarini Widyaningsih
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Indonesia's Omnibus Bill on Job Creation poses a setback for environmental law amid government efforts to boost investment and economic development.
Abstract
The boosting of investment to accelerate economic development is the main goal of the newly re-elected President of the Republic of Indonesia. In his inauguration speech in October 2019, President Joko Widodo declared five priority development goals comprising human resources development: infrastructure development; deregulation through a proposed ‘omnibus’ law; bureaucratic reform: and economic reform.1 He introduced two main laws as a means of boosting investment: a law on job creation and a law on small and middle
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SEMBIRING, Raynaldo; FATIMAH, Isna; WIDYANINGSIH, Grita Anindarini. Indonesia’s omnibus bill on job creation: A setback for environmental law? Chinese Journal of Environmental Law, 2020.