Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources noted as early as 2012, some local governments have issued at least 10 thousand mine permit. Of the number, five thousand of them are problematic permits. For that reason, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources ensures will imposed a moratorium on new mining permit or delay them. Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is no longer issues the new mining permits since the issuance of Law No. 4 of 2009 on minerals and coal mining. But the local government is still issuing new permits.

Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, claimed to find some of mining permits issued by the head of regents, or mayors are invalid. It happened because the new regent issued a permit without observing  the previous permits. Beside, there are also overlapping permits in the expansion area. The reason is, each

regent / head of local area does not know for sure the border of his area, hence there are exploration permits for two different companies in the same area. Observing the rise of invalid and overlapping permits, thus  moratorium is a right decision. Moratorium should be used to improve any irregularities in conjunction with the process of  licensing thoroughly.

The first aspect that must be addressed is the rule. Concerning this, one thing should be kept in mind is setting the authority of central and local governments in issuing permits. Mining Permit should be conducted and approved by the Central Government.

This is meant to reduce the overlapping on mining permits which is most likely to occur if done by local government.  The second aspect is supervision. Problematic mining permit can be caused by surveillance officers in the field not the people who understand the mining and mineral issues.

Therefore, a moratorium is used to prepare human resouces who will be deployed to the field to perform the supervision task.//