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On June 30, 2026, Indonesia’s National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM) issued BPOM Regulation No. 11 of 2026 on Food Packaging, which expands the list of approved food-contact substances and recognizes a broader range of permissible functions for those substances. The new regulation, which revokes BPOM Regulation No. 20 of 2019, reflects developments in packaging technology and materials science.

The enactment of Law No. 20 of 2025 on the Criminal Procedure Code (“KUHAP 2025“) marks a significant development in Indonesia’s criminal justice system. Replacing Law No. 8 of 1981 on the Criminal Procedure Code, which had governed criminal procedure for more than four decades, KUHAP 2025 introduces several legal frameworks that were previously not recognized under Indonesian criminal procedural law.

Indonesia’s Constitutional Court (Mahkamah Konstitusi) has reinstated a key provision limiting pharmaceutical patent protection, signaling a renewed commitment to balancing patent rights with public access to medicines. In its ruling to Case No. 255/PUU-XXIII/2025, the court partially granted a petition for judicial review of Law No. 65 of 2024, which had amended the country’s Patent Law, and ordered the restoration of a provision that had excluded certain pharmaceutical inventions from patentability.