Non-Discrimination Pronciple on the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures Within Coal Mining Foreign Investment Company

Indonesia as a part of the international community inacluble merely accordance to the government of Indonesia provision without considering to any of the international world provisions. Indonesia is the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), so that Indonesia shall be subject to the provisions issued by the WTO. One of the provisions in the WTO is the principle of non-discrimination for foreign investment. Indonesia has numerous Natural Resources that can be exploitation for economic reasons. One business that is promising and ravish for foreign investors are exploiting the natural resources in Indonesia that is coal. Indonesia is the country's seventh largest coal producer in the world, even since 2006. Indonesia became the second largest coal exporter in the world after Australia. Mining construction line of business was forbidden to foreign investment companies until Law number 4 Year 2009 regarding Mineral and Coal have been issued. On the Law number 4 Year 2009 regarding Mineral and Coal foreign investment company can enter the coal mining. The provision objective is to obey the principle of non discrimination on the On The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures and also being considered to be capable as a selling point and competitiveness in contemporary trade to invite foreign investors to invest their capital in Indonesia.