JAKARTA - Chairman of the Golkar Party as well as Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Bahlil Lahadalia stated that within the next six months Indonesia should no longer import oil from Singapore. He emphasized that fuel oil (BBM) must be imported directly from Middle Eastern countries as oil producing countries.
This was conveyed by Bahlil during a discussion entitled The Direction of Indonesian Geostrategic and Geopolitical Policy at the Golkar Party DPP Office, West Jakarta, Thursday, May 8.
According to Bahlil, it would be quite embarrassing if Indonesia became the largest consumer of a country, not an oil producer. In fact, he said, the price of oil purchased is almost the equivalent of an oil producing country in the Middle East.
"Minyakita, where do we import our fuel, 54 percent import fuel from Singapore, countries that don't have oil, but we buy from there. So the total production is 34 percent, the market is from Indonesia, the price is the same as the middleeast. I said this is an embarrassing strategy," said Bahlil.
Bahlil said buying oil directly from the Middle East was more dignified than from Singapore.
Therefore, he ordered that in the next six months Indonesia could directly buy oil from oil producing countries.
"I immediately decided, in the next six months we will no longer be allowed to import oil from Singapore. We will import it from the middleeast. I said, it is much more dignified for us to get oil from the middleeast," said Bahlil.
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"Because he is an oil producing country. Instead of us importing oil from countries that never produce oil," he continued.
"This is our brain, we don't really know, we didn't finish the school or how confused I was too," concluded Bahlil.
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