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Mon, 08/11/2008 - 14:38
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LEGISLATOR CALLS ON AGO TO TAKE UP COAL ROYALTIES EMBEZZLEMENT CASE
Jakarta, Aug. 8 (ANTARA) - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) should follow up the coal royalty embezzlement case involving six coal mining companies which failed to pay royalties totaling Rp16.4 trillion to the state, a legislator said.
Aziz Syamsuddin, deputy chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission III , said here on Monday the Supreme Court could pressure the companies to pay the royalties.
Members of the companies' boards of directors who had been banned from traveling by the legal and human rights ministry should be brought to court, he said.
To save the state funds, the AGO should also seize the properties of the 14 businessmen whose companies had defaulted on their obligation to pay royalties, he said.
The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) had estimated that the embezzlement had caused the state a financial loss of around Rp16 trillion or double the amount mentioned by the government.
Earlier, the energy and mineral resources ministry's director general of minerals, coal and geothermal, Bambang Setiawan, had said the companies had failed to pay royalties for the period 2001-2007 amounting to Rp7 trillion.
The six coal mining companies are PT Kideco Jaya Agung, PT Kaltim Prima Coal, PT BHP Kendilo Coal Indonesia, PT Arutmin Indonesia, PT Berau Coal and PT Adaro Indonesia.
Aziz Syamsuddin, deputy chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission III , said here on Monday the Supreme Court could pressure the companies to pay the royalties.
Members of the companies' boards of directors who had been banned from traveling by the legal and human rights ministry should be brought to court, he said.
To save the state funds, the AGO should also seize the properties of the 14 businessmen whose companies had defaulted on their obligation to pay royalties, he said.
The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) had estimated that the embezzlement had caused the state a financial loss of around Rp16 trillion or double the amount mentioned by the government.
Earlier, the energy and mineral resources ministry's director general of minerals, coal and geothermal, Bambang Setiawan, had said the companies had failed to pay royalties for the period 2001-2007 amounting to Rp7 trillion.
The six coal mining companies are PT Kideco Jaya Agung, PT Kaltim Prima Coal, PT BHP Kendilo Coal Indonesia, PT Arutmin Indonesia, PT Berau Coal and PT Adaro Indonesia.
