Jakarta, Dec 2 (Antara) - State-owned oil and gas company Pertamina is
expected to carry out reforms in the oil sector and increase
productivity under its new President Director Dwi Soetjipto.
"We hope the new Pertamina chief will be committed to reforming the oil
sector, increasing productivity and fighting the oil and gas mafia in
the country," Sofyan Zakaria, the director of Puskepi, a
non-governmental organization advocating pro-public policies, said.
He
stated that a president director of PT Pertamina must have strong
leadership qualities, reliable managerial capabilities, high integrity,
honesty and commitment to help the government fight oil and gas mafia.
Observing that Dwi Soetjipto seems to have met all the requirements,
Sofyan said Dwi may possibly not command oil and gas technicalities but
other directors and the senior vice-president of Pertamina, whose
expertise has already been proven, can help him there.
"I hope Dwi will carry out Pertamina's transformation," he remarked.
State Enterprises Minister Rini M Soemarno installed Dwi Soetjipto as
president director of Pertamina for the 2014-2019 period last Friday.
Dwi Soetjipto, who was the president director of state-owned cement
producer PT Semen Indonesia, was sworn in at the state enterprises
ministry in the presence of Energy and Mineral Resources Minister
Sudirman Said.
Following his inauguration, Dwi Soetjipto expressed readiness to work
with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and State Audit Board
(BPK) to ensure transparency in carrying out reforms in the state oil
and gas company.
"I welcome the measures of KPK, BPK, and other related agencies to make
this company more transparent. I honor the principles of good corporate
governance," he stated at a press conference.
On the occasion, President Joko Widodo, better known as
Jokowi, expressed hopes that that the management of Pertamina will
become stronger with the appointment of Dwi Soetjipto as its new
president director.
"A
strong management is indeed needed there (in Pertamina)," he said at
the State Palace in Bogor, West Java, last Friday.
He noted that Dwi Soetjipto's appointment was part of the government's
efforts to improve the management of oil and gas sector and follows the
earlier appointment of former Corruption Eradication Commission chairman
Amin Sunaryadi as head of upstream oil and gas regulator SKK Migas and
Faisal Basri as oil and gas management reform chief.
"We have Amien in SKK Migas, Faisal Basri in the reform team, and now, a
new management in Pertamina. We hope they form a better synergy," the
President had bserved.
Minister Rini has also appointed Ahmad Bambang (from Pertamina), Yenni
Andayani (from Pertamina), and Arif Budiman (a professional from
McKinsey) as directors of Pertamina.
At a press conference after Dwi's inauguration, Rini stated that Dwi
Soetjipto was the right person for the post as he was capable of
accelerating Pertamina's transformation.
"Dwi
Soetjipto as the best son of the nation, and with all his experience in
managing a corporation, is expected to improve Pertamina. Pak (Mr)
Dwi's appointment is in line with President Joko Widodo's directives
with regard to accelerating the transformation of Pertamina into a world
class company and improving transparency in downstream to upstream
levels," Minister Rini M Soemarno noted.
To improve the performance of Pertamina, Dwi has outlined three goals
and expressed his readiness to implement them for strengthening the
company and making it the spearhead of the government's program to
establish Indonesia's sovereignty in the energy sector.
The first goal, which is short-term, is that Pertamina must achieve
efficiency and increase productivity in all business processes from
downstream to upstream levels.
The second goal is to implement President Joko Widodo's directives to
carry out serious reforms in Pertamina, including eliminating several
irregularities. The third goal is to improve the supply chain between
spot markets and medium and long-term contracts as well as storage
capacity to ensure the optimum management of supply-chain process in the
future.
"We believe if Pertamina is managed well and all parties concerned work
hard, it will become our pride," Dwi pointed out.
In the meantime, Minister Sudirman Said praised Dwi as a mature person
and a strategic thinker. "Managing Pertamina is not a light job. So, a
figure like Dwi is needed to continue reforms in the company," he noted.
"We will prevent and suppress leakages and review our supply chain by managing it optimally," he added.
Pertamina must become the spearhead of the government's vision and
mission in the field of energy and in improving performances in
upstream, midstream, and downstream levels, the minister emphasized.
Regarding the upstream and downstream levels, Ardiansyah, the president
director of Pertamina EP, which is a subsidiary of Pertamina, said Swi
Sutjipto must be able to work fast in resolving oil and gas problems in
the upstream and downstream areas.
According to him, an important job that has to be done and resolved is
production in the upstream level. Pertamina had failed to meet its
production target in the last three years.
"Its
performance in financial terms has not been too bad, yet it has always
been below standard," Ardiansyah said. Therefore, he expressed hope that
the new president director of Pertamina will adjust fast and become
more agile to drive the company in the right direction.
"We hope he will work faster and we will see whether he will take the
company to a different direction or just follow what we have been doing
so far," remarked Ardiansyah.
Head of the Gas and Oil Engineering Laboratory of the University of
Gajah Mada, Bardi Murrachman, pointed out that the new president
director of Pertamina must be able to meet the people's need for energy.
The country is facing a decline in its oil and gas production. In the
past, Indonesia had been able to produce one million barrels of oil per
day when it only needed less than 800 million barrels per day.
"Now, our need for oil has reached 1.3 million barrels a day. This has
forced the country to import some 500-600 barrels of crude oil per day
to cover the shortage," he said.***2***
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