Deposit of 129 Mining Companies Examined
Jakarta-A total of 129 companies such as mining, oil and gas, minerals, and coal are required to transparently disclose the amount of benefits he received from mining exploration activities in Indonesia. It is as a form of implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Indonesia. This initiative will then be transmitted to other Southeast Asian countries.
Chairman of the EITI team formation Indonesia, Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas said, EITI is an initiative that imposed on the government to get a report truthfully related to the acquisition of mining company profits. "In addition, the company must also report how much liability they provide to the government," he said on Monday (7 / 11).
On the other hand, the government must transparently disclose how much funding has been received from the mining company. If there is a difference between the fund and distributed companies that received government funds. So do the stages of reconciliation. Reconciliation carried out by independent auditors. The results of the verification are then submitted to the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs.
There are 129 mining companies are required to implement EITI. They are oil and gas companies that have a total value of gas delivered to the country in 2009 more than 10 million U.S. dollars. Based on these criteria, there were 49 payers revenue-sharing contract that is controlled by 20 companies of the largest oil and gas producers are required to report.
In addition, companies are required to report mineral and coal companies that the amount of royalty which was submitted to the state in 2009 more than 1 million U.S. dollars. Included in this criterion is 5 copper company or gold, tin 4 companies, 2 companies bauxite, nickel and 3 companies. Not only that, there are 28 of the largest coal company in Indonesia and 40 production units under their control.
All these companies have been reported in formulating pendapatannnya reports (templates) that have been prepared by the team formation EITI in 2012. Next, the team will conduct further verification and validation completed in April 2013.
"The data generated from such reporting will be used by the government," he said. Whether it's to determine the amount of the administrative budget as evidence of current or renegotiate mining contracts of work with a number of companies.
EITI officially implemented in Indonesia since 2010 along the issuance of government regulation No. 25/2010 on transparency of revenues and local revenues derived from extractive industries. "So far there is suspicion that the results of national income earned from this industry was not optimal," said Executive Director of the Institute for Essential Services Reform, Fabby Tumiwa.
This is caused due to poor governance of the extractive industries of Indonesia. often occur mainly due to corruption. "And if the entire revenue from oil and gas exploration activities received full state, then the funds can be maximized for builders," he said. The problem is not only in mining company. But also as a result of practices carried out by pliers income pemrintah places over the implementation of decentralization policies. "Therefore it must be immediately addressed," he said.

