Sri Mulyani Calls Luhut Very Excited In The Development Of Simbara

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani (Photo; Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The government has again strengthened the Mineral and Coal Information System ecosystem of the Ministry/Institutions (Simbara) by adding nickel and tin commodities in it. The expansion of data integration and management systems for mineral and coal commodities was inaugurated directly by the Minister of Finance, the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, to the Minister of Transportation.

Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati conveyed that the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan was very excited in preparing for the construction of the Simbara system.

"I thank all parties who are willing to work together, especially in this case, the Coordinating Minister Luhut, who was very fiery and very excited from the beginning when he received a briefing on the construction of Simbara. Thank you Mr. Luhut for being extraordinary," he said at the Launching and Socialization of the Implementation of the Nickel and Timah Commodities through Simbara, Monday, July 22.

Sri Mulyani said that the construction of the Simbara system is a collaboration between the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Transportation, and Bank Indonesia.

This application aims to oversee Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) and mineral and coal trading procedures (Minerba).

Through Simbara, Sri Mulyani claims to be able to prevent illegal mining, encourage the entry of non-tax state revenues (PNBP), and force companies to pay receivables.

"The benefits were to prevent illegal mining, additional PNBP, and even force companies to pay their receivables," he said.

Meanwhile, through the implementation of Simbara, it has provided revenue for state revenue of Rp7.1 trillion, consisting of prevention of illegal mining modes (unlicensed mining) of Rp3.47 trillion, additional state revenue from analytic data and risk profiling from business actors of Rp2.53 trillion, and settlement of receivables from the implementation of the automotic blocking system of Simbara Rp1.1 trillion.

With this system, Sri Mulyani said that the government can jointly enforce the compliance of entrepreneurs to carry out healthy mining business procedures, because there is an automatic blocking system (ABS) feature.

"This is a small example of the coordination time for enforcement and compliance carried out together with an automatic blocking system, so the state's authority is enforced. Entrepreneurs cannot then oh, if this ministry seems strong, we go to another ministry that can be lobbied. With this system we work neatly, consistently, decisively and authoritatively, without disturbing the company, because the company already knows their rights and obligations," he said.

Sri Mulyani said that from the beginning she had to go through 10 monitoring systems for the management of Ministries/Institutions, now it is only 1 system so that 50 documents can be coordinated in an integrated surveillance door.

"10 systems are implemented in 1 system, 50 documents are coordinated one door, integrated supervision, and enforcement to domestic policies such as DMO," he said.