Jakarta, Sept. 10 -- Indonesia's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday that regulations to establish the country's Nuclear Energy Program Implementation Organization (NEPIO) are moving toward the harmonization stage.

"We are pushing for it. It will soon enter the harmonization process ahead of official enactment," Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Yuliot Tanjung told reporters in Jakarta.

He said a legal framework is needed to formally create NEPIO, which will be established through a Presidential Regulation (Perpres) rather than a Presidential Decree (Kepres) as initially planned.

The agency is designed to accelerate development of nuclear power plants (PLTN).

"We are currently drafting the Presidential Regulation, and coor...