Bambang P.S. Brodjonegoro, Finance Minister
Pertamina must join in

State-owned company Pertamina's plan to acquire shares of Trans Pacific Petrochemical Indotama (TPPI) is going back and forth. The complexity of the legal problem of this company makes it difficult for this oil and gas company to influence the owner of Tuban Petro. In the middle of this uncertainty, the Medco Group sent its proposal.

But the government does not want to be easily lured. As a former commissioner of Pertamina, concurrently representing the government holding shares in TPPI, Finance Minister Bambang P.S. Brodjonegoro stressed his position. "The government will favor the state-owned company (SOE) to enter," he told Tempo reporters Y. Tomi Aryanto, Gustidha Budiartie and Ayu Prima Sandi, at his office at the directorate-general of taxes on August 19.

September 8, 2015