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...
...areas were more lucrative than the family's oil businesses. Pertamina imported and exported much of its oil through two small companies in which Tommy and older brother Bambang acquired significant stakes in the mid-1980s. According to a senior official in Habibie's government, the firms received average commissions of 30[cents] to 35[cents] per bbl., totaling more than $50 million in fiscal year...
...These days scandal surrounds one Haji Achmad Thahir, a drab Indonesian government employee who never made more than $9,000 per year in salary in his life. But relatives fighting over his estate discovered him to have a bank account of nearly $35 million. The Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina, has charged in court that two German companies, Siemens and Klockner Industrie, paid Thahir the money in connection with the construction of a $500 million steel mill near Djakarta...
High Grades. The bribery and bureaucratic malfeasance that nearly drove Pertamina under is far from rare in Indonesia. Says a Jakarta schoolteacher who is accustomed to rewarding the children of officers and bureaucrats with high grades in return for gifts from their fathers: "If you can get into the government, you can get rich." Unless they pay off, merchants find it all but impossible to get papers signed, exports loaded aboard ships or vital spare parts released from customs sheds. "The official just sits behind his desk and opens up a drawer," says the regional manager of an American company...