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Natural Resource Management: MoU between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement

Implementations

Natural Resource Management – 2005

Aceh was given 70% of the revenues from natural resources in the MoU, but the Law on Governing Aceh was yet to be finalized in 2005.

Natural Resource Management – 2006

The draft bill was submitted to the parliament in January¹ and the parliament passed the bill on 11 June.²

The law clearly outlined issues related to the management and revenue sharing of natural resources. Articles 156-162 were related to revenues from oil and gas, forestry, fisheries and general mining, including the management of these natural resources. According to the law, Aceh would have control of over 70% of revenues from the province’s oil and gas production, and would receive an extra 2% allocation from the national budget for reconstruction for 20 years. Aceh would have 80% revenues from forestry, fisheries and general mining³

“Indonesia submits draft law on Aceh to parliament,” Agence France Presse, January 27, 2006.
“Indonesian media reacts to passing of Aceh governance law,” BBC Monitoring, July 12, 2006.
“Indonesia enacts law on Aceh governance despite dissatisfaction,” Japan Economic Newswire, July 11, 2006.

Natural Resource Management – 2007

With the implementation of the Law in 2006, the natural resources-related provision of the accord was implemented in Aceh.