Looking Back: 2025 and Gazing Into: 2026
Looking Back: 2025
Throughout 2025, Indonesia’s regulatory environment evolved rapidly across financial services, digital governance, environmental policy, data protection, and corporate transparency. Regulatory authorities sharpened oversight in fintech and crypto markets, strengthened consumer and child online protection, modernised procurement and capital‑market systems, expanded renewable‑energy frameworks, and realigned responsibilities across government bodies. Corporate governance reforms have been advanced through stricter beneficial‑ownership rules, while courts and regulators clarified long‑standing uncertainties in emerging areas such as data protection and digital‑asset transactions. Taken together, 2025 was marked by a decisive shift toward modernisation, accountability, and alignment with global standards across multiple sectors.
Gazing Into: 2026
Indonesia enters 2026 with several key legislative frameworks moving into operational or advanced deliberation stages. The year marks the implementation of Indonesia’s Criminal Code (Kitab Undang‑Undang Hukum Pidanan or KUHP) and Criminal Procedure Code (Kitab Undang‑Undang Hukum Acara Pidana or KUHAP), alongside continued progress on the New and Renewable Energy Bill (Rancangan Undang‑Undang Energi Baru dan Terbarukan or RUU EBET) and the Draft Law on Business Entities (Rancangan Undang‑Undang Badan Usaha or RUU Badan Usaha), which aims to harmonise Indonesia’s fragmented business‑entity regulations. Together, these frameworks reflect ongoing structural changes in criminal justice, energy governance and corporate regulation.
Full Report
Click on the link below for the full report which provides summaries of the key legal developments related to the above areas.
Please note that whilst the information in this Update is correct to the best of our knowledge and belief at the time of writing, it is only intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter and should not be treated as a substitute for specific professional advice
