KPPU Announces Relaxing Of Competition Law Enforcement

In light of the current health crisis and as detailed in our previous client update (click here to read), the Chairman of the Indonesia Competition Commission ("KPPU") has expressed his support for businesses to collaborate. Subsequently, on 9 November 2020, the KPPU published KPPU Regulation No. 3 of 2020 on the Relaxation of Legal Enforcement of Monopoly Practices and Unfair Business Competition and Monitoring of Partnership Implementation to Support the National Economic Recovery to specify the criteria and form of relaxation in its enforcement.

Under the new regulation, businesses can now benefit from the following relaxation:

1. procurement using State Budget or Regional Budget can be done to: