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Author	Prof Udin Silalahi
Organisation/Institution	Universitas Pelita Harapan, Faculty of Law
Country	INDONESIA
Panel	Competition Law
Title	The Urgency of Collaborative Green Projects Between Businesses To Pursue Climate Sustainability: An Indonesian Proposal For An Antitrust Law Enforcement
Abstract	The concern over the environment’s breaking point endurance has multiplied considering the threat of global boiling is the extinction of the planet and all its being. OECD stresses that despite the full functional mix of technology, a well-functioning market, as well as regulation and policy is an effective way of reaching the climate target, yet the driving force of technology is from businesses initiatives. Business understands the technology that they are using, chances for improvement along with its impact to its ecosystem. Thus, they are the ones that are best placed to advance it as a greener technology. Yet, such green technology research requires significant and continuous investment, either financially or others, such as access to experts or peers that may improve the current technology. The lack of such investment may trigger the first -mover disadvantages causing impediment or even failure of technological advancements. Indonesia is placed at the third bottom among ASEAN countries in the green investment 2020-2022, such may provide a negative outlook on the sustainability achievement. This dire situation calls for a proper set of incentives supported by law that is dynamic enough to capture the agile nature of this environment’s problem-to-solution issues, such as sustainability collaborative projects. Yet, such collaboration may entail antitrust risks, such risks that under proper guidance may be revisited or even exempted for achieving a greater good. However, taking past cartel cases initiated by KPPU, the Indonesia Competition Commission, these kinds of exemptions may not happen. This paper explores the possibility of either the KPPU to look at the collaborative green project between businesses, either horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally under the exemption, or the government to provide a set of regulations permitting such collaboration by using a normative legal research and qualitative analysis.
Biography	Prof. Dr. jur. Udin Silalahi, SH., LL.M received his Bachelor of Law from the University of Atma Jaya Yogayakarta in 1985 and immediately joined the CSIS in mid of 1986. In 1995, he obtained his Master of Law from the University Friedrich-Alexander Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany. His thesis was entitled: “Franchise according to the European competition law”. After receiving his doctor degree with magna cum laude in Law in February 2001 from the University of Friedrich-Alexander Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, he immediately joined the CSIS Jakarta in April 2001 again. His doctoral thesis was entitled: “Merger control in Indonesia according to the Government Regulation No. 27/1998 and the Law No. 5/1999 in comparison with German and European merger control”. Since 2009 Udin Silalahi joins Faculty of Law Universitas Pelita Harapan as a Lecturer, and currently also as Editor in Chief Global Legal Review and Head of Laboratory of Faculty of Law Universitas Pelita Harapan, Karawaci, Tangerang, Indonesia and part time lecturer at School of Strategic and Global Studies, University of Indonesia, in European Studies, Jakarta. He is teaching the subject of competition law and bankrupty law. He was a part time consultant to the Commission for the Supervision of Business Competition from 2002 to 2020. His research interests are antitrust and competition law, comparative competition law, competition policy, merger and acquisition and political economy and as well as bankruptcy law.