The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has clarified on the search conducted at three rooms of the Office of the Directorate General of Oil & Gas at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) located on Jalan Rasuna Said in Central Jakarta on Monday, February 10, 2025.
AGO Spokesman Harli Siregar said the search was related to alleged corruption in the management of crude oil and refinery products at State energy company PT Pertamina. The alleged corruption took place in the subholding and the 2018-2023 oil and gas contract (KKKS).
He cited that in 2018, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources issued Ministerial Regulation (Permen) No. 42/2018 on the priority of petroleum utilization to meet domestic needs.
This regulation was made with the aim that PT Pertamina is required to seek domestically produced oil to meet domestic needs and private cooperation contracts or KKKS.
“It is mandatory to offer private KKKS oil shares to PT Pertamina,” Harli said on Monday, February 10, 2025.
According to him, referring to the provision, if the offer is rejected by Pertamina, then the rejection is used to submit an export recommendation. This procedure is required as one of the requirements to obtain export approval.
In its implementation, private KKKS and Pertamina, tried to avoid agreements during the offer period which was carried out in various ways. According to him, from here on there will be an element of unlawful acts.
The State’s Share of Crude Oil and Condensate (MMKBN) which was exported on the grounds of Covid-19 pandemic due to a reduction in the capacity of refinery production intake. However, at the same time, Pertamina imported crude oil to meet the refinery production intake.
“The act of selling MMKBN resulted in crude oil that could be processed, refined, having to be replaced with imported crude oil. Which is a habit of PT Pertamina which cannot be separated from importing crude oil,” Harli said.
He said that the search conducted by the AGO was one of the steps taken by investigators to shed light on the case.
He cited that investigators searched three rooms, namely the room of the Director of Upstream Business Development, the Director of Downstream Business Development and the Secretary of the Directorate General of Oil and Gas.
Through this search, investigators managed to seize a number of pieces of evidence in the form of five boxes of documents. There is also electronic evidence in the form of 15 mobile phones and one laptop and four soft files.
