When state-owned oil company Pertamina was squeezed by a crisis, Adnil Hasnan Habib was unusually busy trying to find out the causes. He was then a member of the technical team assigned to settle the problem Pertamina was embroiled in. The other members of the team were the late Piet Haryono and the then cabinet secretary Ismail Saleh.

Former Indonesian envoy to the US, Hasnan Habib, tapping freely from his extraordinarily retentive memory,