REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Arifin Tasrif said that a special mining business permit (IUPK) for the Great Administrator of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) is in the process of administration.

“(Licensing for NU) is in the administrative process,” Minister of ESDM said in a meeting after a working meeting with Commission VII of the Parliament of the Republic of Indonesia in the Parliament complex, Jakarta, on Wednesday.

Arifin said that the IUPK for NU is currently still being processed in the administrative phase. The IUPK will later be published based on the recommendation of the Ministry of Investment/Capital Investment Coordination Agency (BKPM).

“This is the recommendation of investment (BKPM). Mining remains with us (Ministry of ESDM). If the investment is all from BKPM,” Arifin said.