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View all search resultsThe Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has refuted rumors that it had found indications that State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Minister Erick Thohir and his brother Gariibaldi “Boy” Thohir were involved in corruption-ridden fuel imports at state-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina.
Customers are up in arms over the massive corruption scandal implicating Pertamina, with some turning to more expensive but quality-assured rival brands and others deliberately purchasing potentially doctored nonsubsidized fuel to ensure that taxpayer-funded subsidies reached their intended recipients.
Pertamina president director Simon Aloysius Mantiri has made a first public apology for the state-owned oil and gas giant’s graft-ridden import scandal, as he promised to clean up the company and allow third-party product quality testing in a bid to restore public trust.
Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, a former president commissioner of state-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina, has alleged that more people are involved in the firm’s fuel import scandal than have been publicly identified and that he would be eager to cooperate with investigators to rid the oil and gas sector of corruption.
The President has vowed to crack down on corruption in the oil and gas industry after the AGO detained several executives, including the president director of a Pertamina subsidiary, as suspects in an ongoing case pertaining to fuel imports.
At Monday's ceremony to inaugurate 37 electricity projects in Sumedang, West Java, the President doubled down on his promise to end fuel imports as part of his administration's food and energy self-sufficiency drive.
Several refineries, once completed, are expected to double Indonesia’s fuel output, enabling Pertamina to meet the country’s growing transportation fuel demand without raising fuel imports, a major contributor to the nation’s trade deficit.
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