OIL production seems to have slowed down in the past seven years, reaching only about 800,000 barrels per day this year. Even President Yudhoyono, delivering his Financial Report on the 2011 State Budget, set the target at 970,000 barrels per day.

Indonesia last surpassed the million-barrel production mark in 2003. But Priyono, Director of the Upstream Business Activities Executive Board and BP Migas (Oil & Gas Regulatory Board), said the num