Word: pertamina
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...There is no evidence that ExxonMobil's senior executives have ever witnessed an atrocity in Aceh (they deny having done so) and the company has no command authority over the soldiers who protect it. In addition, all of the property and equipment that it uses is technically owned by Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned oil monopoly, which is the controlling partner in a production sharing contract with ExxonMobil. But Terry Collingsworth, the ilrf's lead lawyer, is confident that the American company can be held liable. "All we need to show is that its executives knew what was going...
...groups accused Mobil Oil (the company assumed its current name after merging with Exxon in 1999) of ignoring this evidence, including reports that soldiers were using the corporation's earthmoving equipment to bury their victims in mass graves. At least one of those graves was thought to be on Pertamina land, less than three miles from an ExxonMobil drill site. At the time, the company pleaded ignorance, saying if substantiated claims of abuse were brought to its attention, it "would aggressively respond to and denounce such actions...