KBUMN Lowered To Agency, Can Overlap With Danantara

Ministry of SOEs (Photo: VOI)

The discourse on decreasing the status of the Ministry of SOEs has drawn the spotlight. BUMN observer and NEXT Indonesia Center Director, Herry Gunawan, assessed that this step has the potential to create overlapping authority with Danantara.

According to Herry, since the birth of Law Number 1 of 2025 concerning SOEs, the role of supervision and development of state-owned companies has been fully transferred to the Danantara.

Moreover, against Herry, the Danantara position has been strengthened through Government Regulation Number 10 of 2025 concerning the organization and governance of the institution.

"Therefore, if there is a body that replaces the Ministry of SOEs, it will overlap in the management of SOEs," he told VOI, Wednesday, September 24.

Herry emphasized that the function of a body in the government structure is technical in nature according to the president's direction. Meanwhile, Danantara has carried out this technical function from the start.

The overlap causes the management of SOEs in the future to become inefficient. Not to mention that there is a potential for SOE management policies to collide," he said.

Another risk, said Herry, is the difficulty of evaluating the performance of SOEs. Therefore, Herry assessed that the option of reducing the status of the Ministry of SOEs to a body was useless.

"So, the existence of the Ministry of SOEs, even though it was lowered to a body, is no longer relevant after the presence of the Danantara. Therefore, the Ministry of SOEs should be dissolved," he said.

Previously, Minister of State Secretary (Mensesneg) Prasetyo Hadi said there was an opportunity for the Ministry of SOEs to drop its status to a body, along with the operational functions of state-owned companies that were mostly handled by BPI Danantara.

"There is a possibility that the ministry may want us to lower its status to an agency. There is a possibility like that," said Prasetyo at the DPR Building, Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Tuesday, September 23.

Prasetyo said, certainty about this matter will be determined through the discussion of the Fourth Amendment Bill on Law Number 19 of 2003 concerning BUMN with Commission VI of the DPR RI.

When asked further about the term agency, Prasetyo suggested waiting. Because, he said it would be discussed further later.

"Wait a minute. Wait for us to discuss it," he said

Prasetyo said the bill would discuss the best options for the Ministry of SOEs in the future. This includes the fate of the state civil servants (ASN) in the ministry.

"If there are consequences or implications for the example mentioned earlier, now those who have served in the Ministry of SOEs are part of what we will think later," he said.