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Pertamina urged to enlist independent gas station auditors
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Hiswana Migas Jakarta, Banten and West Java regional secretary Syarif Hidayat stressed the association would provide no assistance to gas stations found to have been cheating costumers. (thejakartapost.com/Anton Hermansyah)
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he Association of Fuel Station Owners (Hiswana Migas) has called on state-owned energy firm Pertamina to engage third-party auditors to supervise gas stations and prevent fraud in the downstream oil business.
The gas station business has come under the spotlight recently, after a franchise gas station in South Jakarta cheated customers by using a remote controlled device in a pump to deceitfully pump out only 18.6 liter of fuel for every 20 liters purchased. Police are investigating the case.
Hiswana Migas Jakarta, Banten and West Java regional secretary Syarif Hidayat said the case showed that Pertamina’s routine checks at franchised gas stations was not enough. Additional auditors were needed to check gas station operations – in undercover operations, if necessary.
"We suggest Pertamina use third party auditors, not only its internal auditors and staff from the metrology office. The auditors should also go undercover and the audit visits must be randomized," Syarif told thejakartapost.com in Jakarta on Friday.
Hiswana Migas suggested that Pertamina ask state-owned surveyor Sucofindo and TÜV to launch the third-party audit. Mischievous practices, he further said, had destroyed not only Pertamina's reputation but that of the fuel station business as a whole. (ags)
