“The new Director General of Oil and Gas must place Nawa Cita as a guide for oil and gas management in Indonesia, especially related to energy security strategies and the lack of national oil and gas reserves,” said National Coordinator of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia, Maryati Abdullah, as a statement received in Jakarta on Monday. (10/5)

Jakarta, Aktual.co – After being elected as Director General of Oil and Gas, a number of people await the concrete steps of I Gusti Nyoman Wiratmaja Puja in improving the oil and gas sector. Because, there are some homework that is soon to be completed.

“The new Director General of Oil and Gas must place Nawa Cita as a guide for oil and gas management in Indonesia, especially related to energy security strategies and the lack of national oil and gas reserves,” said National Coordinator of Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia, Maryati Abdullah, as a statement received in Jakarta on Monday. (10/5)

In addition, he continued, it also important for the Director General of Oil and Gas to oversee the acceleration of the revision of the Oil and Gas Law and ensure that all its substances are in accordance with the constitution and have a strong alignment with the interests of the people.

“The Oil and Gas Bill must contain a number of agenda changes, including the upstream oil and gas institutional model that allows for a process of checks and balances while adjusting to the mandate of the Constitutional Court’s ruling,” he explained.

Furthermore, guarantees for the fulfillment of the right to information, participation and public access to the industry along the extractive industry process chain include the openness of KKKS contracts, information on lifting, state revenue and transparent sale / purchase of crude oil.

“The establishment of sovereign wealth funds and petroleum funds as funds from oil and gas revenues which are set aside and managed accountably to support the government’s agenda for welfare and energy development. In addition, there is an obligation to pay attention to community concerns around the mine in consideration to be extract or not the oil and gas reserves, including the rights of indigenous peoples,” explained Maryati.

In addition, the Director General of Oil and Gas must also be commander in order to prevent oil and gas mafia that are suspected playing in every upstream and downstream oil and gas industry value chain. One of them is related to the practice of rent-seeking in managing participating interests for the region.

“Based on data from the Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Activities (SKK Migas) there are at least 25 (twenty five) oil and gas block contracts that will expire in the next 5 (five) years, so that in the future issues related to regional interests in tasting interest will a lot of discussion, “he concluded.