THERE was a lot of concerned muttering reverberating around the meeting room of the Energy Commission at the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) during a meeting with the state-owned oil & gas company PT Pertamina, on Wednesday last week.

Discontent has heightened following Pertamina's assistant managing director, Mustiko Saleh, mentioning the names of the members of the negotiating team with ExxonMobil regarding the extension of