Indonesia Struggles to Investigate Pertamina's Partners in Singapore

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Attorney General's Office (AGO) is still striving to coordinate with the Singaporean authorities to examine several trading company officials in the Lion City. AGO scheduled an examination of 22 individuals to investigate corruption in managing crude oil and refinery products at PT Pertamina.

The examination was initially scheduled for June 2, 2025, but as of June 3, it has not been conducted. "The attaché in Singapore continues to collaborate with Singaporean authorities to facilitate the examination of invited individuals," said the Head of the Legal Information Center of AGO, Harli Siregar, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025.

Despite not being executed, AGO's investigators are still in Singapore. Among the total of 22 individuals scheduled for examination, nine of them are the Head of Singapore Crude Trading for various companies, including BP Singapore PTE LTD's Mysoor Pradyumna, Glencore Singapore PTE LTD's Kelvin Au, Freepoint Commodities Singapore PTE's Romi Rathomi, and MITSUI & CO Energy Trading's Kouichi Sato.

There are also Narut Hiranwong of PTT International Trading, Nitin Mehndroo of Vitol Asia PTE LTD, Tsuyoshi Minami of Socar Trading Singapore PTE LTD, Andrew Healey of Woodside Energy Trading Singapore, Benoit Roulon of Total Trading Asia PTE LTD, and Ryuji Nagano. These companies are partners of Pertamina and are engaged in the oil and gas trading business.

Prosecutors have named nine suspects in the case of Pertamina's corruption in managing crude oil and refinery products. Previously, the prosecutors stated that several illegal actions were taken in this case, including conditioning the reduction of refinery products, which led to the non-absorption of domestic crude oil production. Pertamina is said to have rejected offers of domestic crude oil production, claiming that they did not meet the specifications. To compensate for the shortage, Pertamina then resorted to an import policy.

In the import process, investigators also found the purchase of Ron 92 fuel, but instead received Ron 90 or below. Investigators also found a markup in the contract value for the transportation to private companies. Until this date, the investigators have not completed the case file.

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