Bukit Asam is encouraged to execute the posterior transmission mandate in the form of coal gasification

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 – 18:01 Wib

Yakarta, alive – PT BUKIT ASAM TBK (Persero) It is considered that PTBA still has the task in terms of coal to transmission. This includes the matter of the coal gasification project to Dimetyl Ether (DME), which has entered as the National Strategic Project (PSN) through the presidential regulation (Peres) No. 109 of 2020.

In fact, Bumn’s observers from Next Indonesia, Herry Gunawan, said, at this time, the DME project had been declared in the list of 18 priority projects by President Pabowo Subánto.

“The president has a great concern to realize, given the dependence on LPG imports,” said Herry in Yakarta, Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

According to him, liquefied natural gas imports (LPG) are increasingly burdensome for the government budget, which must be assigned for 3 -kilograms LPG subsidies. In 2024, the Ministry of Finance said the value reached around RP 85.6 billion, then budgeted 87.6 billion in 2025. That amount was equivalent to 43 percent of the total energy subsidy.

Taking into account the importance of coal transmission as a replacement for LPG that has been subsidized, Herry emphasized that PTBA’s shareholders should make it one of the discussions, on the agenda of the General Meeting (RUPS) of the PTBA shareholders that will be held on June 12, 2025.

“This DME project must be a concern for shareholders, because it is very important for national energy security,” he said.

According to the dissemination of information from PTBA, one of the AGM Agendas is a change in company management. On this occasion, shareholders must evaluate the reasons for not implementing the mandatory mandate for the administration of the company, to carry out the DME gas gasification project.

“In fact, a new management is needed to carry out the important program, and if you observe the AGM agenda, the shareholders will make changes in management,” said Herry.

At present, PTBA majority shareholders are controlled by Mind ID, to know, the bumn in the mining sector. With the new administration that manages the gasification of coal in the DME gas, Herry also proposes that the realization of the strategic project becomes one of the indicators in the management of the key performance indicator (KPI), especially the directors.

“They have been decades of Indonesia for decades to depend on the importation of LPG to meet domestic needs, and it is time to start the detention process taking into account that the production of natural gas from Indonesia is always surplus compared to domestic needs,” he said.