JAKARTA - The Ministry of State Enterprises (BUMN) will cooperate with the National Police to secure all vital assets of state-owned firms, a minister said.
"Protection of vital assets of state firms must be carried out in order not to repeat an incident like the fire on oil tanks in a refinery plant of state oil and gas company Pertamina," BUMN Minister Mustafa Abubakar said here on Wednesday.
The minister said that state companies badly needed cooperation with police in order to protect their vital assets, including the efforts to carry out forensic investigation and examinations after an incident occurred.
In fact, the ministry of state firm has issued a circular on the protection of PT Pertamina assets in connection with the fire which gutted the state firm's fuel depots at Plumpang north Jakarta on February 2009.
For the protection of the assets, BUMNs cooperate with PT Sucofindo, a firm active in asset protection auditing services with a pilot project involving PT Pertamina and state electricity firm PT PLN.
Besides protection of infrastructure assets, Sucofindo is also to conduct auditing of the quality of the assets' infrastructure, examination and research on assets.
According to Mustafa, the BUMN ministry in its capacity as BUMN share holder wanted that all assets belonging to BUMN would be well protected.
The minister acknowledged that a number of BUMN assets were already old but in technical term they still could be utilized.
"For this purpose, it should be emphasized that asset protection must be tightened so that it would not create havoc and losses to the company," he said.
Based on data available at BUMN ministry, total assets of all BUMNs in 2009 stood at Rp2,150 trillion. They increased to Rp2,500 trillion in 2010 and are expected to reach Rp2,977 trillion in 2011.
source : waspada.co.id
