JAKARTA Memories of today, six years ago, January 16, 2019, the Minister of SOEs, Rini Sumarno, were confused about the criticism of Prabowo Subianto's presidential candidate regarding SOEs going bankrupt. Rini emphasized that SOEs have done their best for the people of Indonesia even though they are now facing big challenges.
Previously, Prabowo saw the government's lack of seriousness in managing SOEs. Instead of bringing profits, the government continues to lose money. Many of the SOEs went bankrupt.
The difficulty of SOEs looking for profits is not new. The way to manage SOEs that are in disarray is behind it. This condition makes the government only understand injecting deficiencies. This condition makes SOEs continue to run even if they bring losses.
The problem of SOEs is common knowledge. No one doesn't understand that SOEs continue to lose money. In fact, companies that are struggling in the same field as SOEs are profitable.
The Ministry of SOEs was asked to clean up. If there are no SOEs, they will continue to lose money until they go bankrupt. The observations were also conveyed by Prabowo Subianto. The national figure who is also a presidential candidate conveyed his criticism regarding the collapse of the management of SOEs.
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He said that one by one BUMN went bankrupt because it was wrong to manage. Debt accumulates. SOEs continue to lose money. Prabowo also revealed that the condition of the collapse of SOEs will be overcome if he leads.
There is no story that SOEs go bankrupt and mismanagement. Government and BUMN debt will soon be repaid. This condition is so that SOEs can run well. SOEs can also generate abundant profits whose results can be used for the benefit of the Indonesian people.
"The state that allows our SOEs, Pertamina, Garuda, is now in a state if you can say it is bankrupt. Pertamina, PLN Krakatau Steel, now the debt is terrible. If there are SOEs that make a profit, fortunately, it's not much.
"Our vision and mission is to give the name Indonesia Win. Indonesia must win. We must not be a losing nation. Those who beg. Debts continue. We do not want to be a nation that cannot defend its own people," Prabowo said as quoted on the Kompas website, January 14, 2019.
Prabowo's criticism regarding SOEs went bankrupt made the government frantic. The owner of the power tried to dispel Prabowo's assumption. The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, intervened.
He emphasized that SOEs are indeed losing money, but the conditions are still reasonable. No need to exaggerate. The Minister of SOEs, Rini Sumarno also denied Prabowo's criticism on January 16, 2019.
Rini said what Prabowo said was not entirely true. He emphasized that SOEs have provided their best service to the community.
He admits that SOEs do face many challenges. However, that does not mean that the challenge makes SOEs bankrupt. Because, the most important thing about presenting SOEs is that their presence can provide benefits for the people of Indonesia.
"PLN until now continues to provide the best service, Pertamina also provides the best service, Garuda, and the Indonesian Train also provide the best service. There must be a bit of turmoil, but as a corporation we always think about how we deal with it."
"All of this we do with full responsibility, considering that we are BUMN means belonging to the people. So that we can pass it and of course I always emphasize to SOEs so that they can provide benefits, because thus we can provide welfare to employees and most importantly give welfare to the people of Indonesia," Rini said as quoted on the tempo.co page, January 16, 2019.
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