ABSTRAKOver the past few years, one of Indonesias state-owned enterprises, PLN, has conducted dialogues focusing
on developing a new value-creative business model to transform itself, a sleepy regulated utility, into a truly
competitive electricity service provider. However, efforts to preserve the prominence of the Countrys electricity
sector have been ongoing as the sector is still experiencing sustained rolling blackouts, net import dependency
and lack of transmission facility enforcement throughout the Indonesian archipelago. Such efforts have been
varied from the incentivise policy and programs such as the Public-Private Partnership and the two phases
of Fast Track Program. The reformation of electricity law dated back on the 1985, 2002 and 2009 to attract
investors in the development of Indonesias electricity sector have been enacted, but a controversial issue arose
from the annulment of the Law No. 20 Year 2002 on Electricity by the Constitutional Court Decision No. 001-
021-022/PUU-I/2003 stating that such law which clearly stating that the requirement to privatise electricity
operation was unconstitutional. This article will try to provide a comprehensive comparative analysis of such
decision with the common practice adopted by the EU which has successfully implemented its deregulation
and separation of the electricitys business chain through unbundling the sector as part of liberalisation.