JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto inaugurated the inaugural production of the oil project from the Forel and Terubuk fields in the South Natuna Sea Block B Working Area (WK), Riau Islands today, Friday, May 16.

"By saying Bismilah, this afternoon, Friday, May 16, 2025, I am Prabowo Subianto, President of the Republic of Indonesia, inaugurating the inaugural production of the Forel and Terubuk oil fields. Thank you. Good luck. Once again free," Prabowo said in his remarks, Friday, May 16.

Prabowo stated that he was proud of the achievements of the nation's children who succeeded in conducting the first reduction in Medco's field. Not only that, he admitted that the inauguration of this project was the first inauguration in the field of oil and gas lifting during this newly led government.

"This project is an important milestone, a historic milestone and our joint efforts to achieve national energy supply," said Prabowo.

Meanwhile, in its report, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia said the two projects had a total investment of 600 million US dollars and were able to create jobs of approximately 2,300 people on the construction.

"This project has strategic value because the one who has is the biological child of the Republic of Indonesia and the workers are also all Indonesian children and including the first PSO ship is also 100 percent Indonesian TKDN. So all of them are children of the Republic of Indonesia," said Bahlil.


The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)

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