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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The president commissioner of PT Pertamina (Persero) Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or Ahok, highlighted the governance of the state companies dependent on the Ministry of BUMN.
He regretted the process of placing the positions of directors and commissioners of state companies that the Minister of BUMN could carry out at will.
The former governor of DKI Jakarta also proposed that the Ministry of BUMN be dissolved.
Also read: Ahok only proposes to dissolve the Ministry of BUMN, what is the reason?
Indonesia’s Alpha Research Database Investigator Ferdy Hasiman assessed that Ahok’s statement on the dismantling of strategic positions of state-owned companies should have been heard by BUMN Minister Erick Thohir.
This is because the act of ‘entrusting a position’ to the appointment of directors or commissioners of BUMN is no longer something that is known to many.
“It’s been a long time, but no one has dared to dismantle it. So Ahok’s narrative and criticism must be heard,” Ferdy said. Kompas.com, Wednesday (9/16/2020).
According to Ferdy, Ahok’s statement could be used as an impetus for internal reform of the Ministry. The hope is that political interests can be separated from the conduct of the state-owned enterprises.
“It must be seen as a criticism so that the minister of SOE does not mix political issues with the election of directors in the BUMN companies,” he said.
Also read: Ahok’s full statement criticizing Pertamina
With a separation between professionalism and political interests, BUMN is expected to be able to increase its profits.
“SOEs must be professionals to fulfill their corporate duties of seeking profits and generating profits and, in the future, being able to pay dividends to the state,” he said.
Previously, Ahok assessed that hundreds of BUMNs that exist today are best managed in a truly professional way and away from political interests.
Indonesia can emulate what the Singaporean government has done by forming Temasek.
“The BUMN Ministry should be disbanded. We are building a kind of Temasek, a kind of Indonesian Incorporation,” Ahok said, quoted from the broadcast uploaded by the YouTube account POIN and seen on Wednesday (9/16/2020).
