It was not without reason that State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan called for the disbandment of Pertamina Energy Trading Limited, or Petral. He claimed three weeks ago that he was fed up with the string of negative reports linked to this trading arm of state oil and gas firm Pertamina, which markets the firm's crude oil and assists in the importation of gasoline products to meet Indonesia's demands.

From the time Petral was known as Perta Oil