For The Sake Of Efficiency, Finally Erick Thohir Closes 51 Offspring Of State-owned Companies

Garuda Indonesia aircraft at Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali (Moksa Hutasoit / voi)

JAKARTA - State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Minister Erick Thohir has implemented his policy on the efficiency of the company's children and grandchildren under his leadership. There are about 51 children and grandchildren of the state-owned company that will be closed. The goal is that state-owned companies focus on running their core business.

Erick said that plate companies must do good corporate and governance (GCG), focus on core business and sustainable efficiency. This is done, so that the company's children and grandchildren continue to be healthy.

Of the 51 children and grandchildren of BUMN that were cut, they came from three companies, namely PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, PT Pertamina (Persero) and PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Persero) Tbk.

Garuda Indonesia cut the number of children and grandchildren of 6 companies. Meanwhile, at Pertamina there are 25 children and grandchildren of businesses that have been closed. Meanwhile, in Telkom there are 20 business children and grandchildren.

Erick said, currently, BUMN has 27 company clusters. Because of this, he wanted to make adjustments to the supply chain and business chain .

"We will try efficiency up to 14. So each Deputy Minister will hold 7 to 8, so cut 50 percent," said Erick, in a video conference with journalists, in Jakarta, Friday, April 3.

For information, one of the grandchildren of a state-owned company that Erick cut was PT Garuda Tauberes Indonesia.

"Garuda Tauberes online from cargo, actually Garuda's cargo business already exists, why should there be a switch off again, just add the existing divisions," he said.

Later, said Erick, the cuts for 51 children and grandchildren of this BUMN business will use a merger, liquidation or divestment scheme.

For your information, PT Garuda Tauberes Indonesia is a subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia which was released on September 11, 2019. Garuda Tauberes is a digital logistics application that is claimed to be the first in Indonesia to connect air cargo services with goods delivery agents to the public ( end customers ).

The Tauberes application is an e-commerce platform that provides logistics ordering services, both for couriers, air cargo gateways and payments developed by PT Garuda Tauberes Indonesia (GTI). In this application, there are three main features, namely sending packages, air cargo, and online shopping.