Licensing Policy on Mineral and Coal Mining in the Concept of Division of Authority

The mineral and coal mining licensing policy currently in force is law Number 3 of 2020 concerning Amendments to 4 2009 Mineral Coal Mining. However, this considered too centralistic because the role Central Government more dominant than Role Local Government. This research uses a normative approach analyze related policies Law concept division authority. results show that provisions legislation, central government has authority grant permits for minerals mining. In contrast, local governments can obtain power through delegation from government. tends be centralistic, even though Indonesian state adheres principle decentralization. needs consider several things, such as implementation pay attention “content policy” “context implementation." must follow values held by display combinations (top-down bottom-up), balance, integration building good policies.