A Legal Analysis of Governing New Energy Related-Technology through Public and Private Regulations in Indonesia

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10.2991/iceml-18.2018.53How to use a DOI?

Keywords

energy technologies, nuclear energy, public regulations, private regulations

Abstract

The shortage of electric power, the decline in oil and gas reserves and the impacts of climate change are among the issues affecting the Indonesian energy sector. New energy related-technology therefore needs to be adopted to address these issues. However, as a civil law system country and because of how long it takes to enact laws and regulations, the technology has developed much faster than the legislation and Indonesia sometimes suffers under a legal vacuum regarding the development of new technology. New energy related technology is continuously developing, and such includes the safe ways to use of the energy sources. However, for certain types of energy, if they are not carefully managed, their use can instead be harmful. For instance, the use of nuclear power given the damage it may cause. Indonesia only uses it for research despite its great energy potential. In fact, under its latest energy policy, the Indonesian government has set nuclear energy as the last option for meeting the demand for electric power. This decision however does not withstand scrutiny as the use of nuclear power has long been developed since the 1950s by the Indonesian Nuclear Regulatory Agency. Internationally, the use of nuclear energy is heavily regulated. This paper provides a critical view and concludes that Indonesia has sufficient tools to adopt new energy related technology of nuclear power and therefore can exploit its resources up to their fullest potential to resolve the continuing energy issues. This paper focuses on the nuclear technologies and provides an analysis of the existing regulations and offers solutions to certain issues that appear to be causing hesitation regarding the use of such energy through a combination of public and private regulations. The solutions are expected to be workable and to allow Indonesia to embrace the modern technology in other sectors

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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