Called The 'Queen Of Coal' By M. Nasir Of Democrats, Tan Paulin: We Don't Sell Stolen Coal

JAKARTA - The DPR RI Commission VII Hearing Meeting with the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Arifin last week had a long tail. The reason is that the name of entrepreneur Tan Paulin was dragged into the agenda for discussing the condition of the national coal.

During one of the discussion sessions with Arifin, Member of Commission VII from the Democratic Party Faction Muhammad Nasir (M. Nasir) made a statement that correlated Tan Paulin as the “Queen of Coal” and was deemed to have violated the rules for conducting business activities.

"Our coal continues to disappear and until it is called the queen of coal and is not caught. Its production is 1 million tons per month but we have not received any reports," said M. Nasir as reported by VOI on Thursday, January 13.

On this matter, Tan Paulin spoke up. Through his legal counsel, Yudistira, the mining sector entrepreneur conveyed his right of reply to the editor.

"Due to this news, our client feels disadvantaged because the news is far from the truth and is not based on existing facts," he said in the memo dated January 14, which was quoted today.

According to Yudistira, Tan Paulin has carried out business activities in accordance with the rules and regulations set by the government.

"That the actual legal fact is that our client is an entrepreneur who buys coal from mines holding official IUP-OP and all coal that our clients trade has gone through the verification process of the truth of the origin of goods and taxes that have been stated in the LHV (Report) Verification Results) from the appointed surveyor," he said.

Furthermore, Yudistira explained if his client trades based on the Mining Business License for Special Production Operations for Transportation and Sales Number 94/1/IUP/PMDN/2018 which is registered in Minerba One Data Indonesia.

As for the sale of coal, he continued, it is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the law, where the coal sold has official documents.

"When it comes to state revenue, of course, based on the official document, all obligations for paying state treasuries have been fulfilled, such as royalty fees through e-PNBP which have been paid by the IUP OP holder at the place of origin of the coal by self-assessment through the SIMPONI or MOMS application based on quality and quantity. coal by referring to the Verification Result Report (LHV) from surveyors," he said.

After revealing based on the above legal facts, Yudistira believes that the accusations made by Muhammad Nasir, SH during the discussion of the meeting between Commission VII DPR RI and the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources some time ago that stated his client was selling stolen coal abroad were untrue and baseless.

“The coal sold by our clients abroad has gone through stages and processes in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, official documents from IUP-OP which produce coal in accordance with the quota from the current year's RKAB have been pocketed, royalty fees to the state It has also been paid, so the accusations made by Muhammad Nasir, SH are baseless at the discussion meeting,” he explained.

Then, Tan Paulin's attorney also said that the damaged infrastructure due to his client's export activities was just a figment.

"The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources through the Director General of Mineral and Coal will certainly carry out supervision at each mine and will certainly be evaluated by Mining Technical Personnel who are competent and accountable in planning transportation activities, especially in haul road planning which must pay attention to civil aspects in order to create haul roads. decent coal," he said.