Will Jokowi-Megawati meet during the commemoration of Pancasila Day in the Rokan Block?
The commemoration of Pancasila Day is approaching. Will this be the first Jokowi-Megawati meeting?
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Bung Karno statue with a five-branched breadfruit tree in the background at Pancasila Square, Ende, East Nusa Tenggara, Wednesday (7/8/2019).
Commemoration of Pancasila Day June 1 2024 is planned in the Rokan Block, Riau. This location was reportedly President Joko Widodo's choice.
Acting Deputy of Protocol for the Press and Media at the Presidential Secretariat, Mohamad Yusuf Permana, confirmed the plan on Friday (May 24, 2024) evening.
Similarly, a member of the Board of Directors of the Pancasila Ideology Development Agency (BPIP), Sudhamek Agoeng Waspodo Soenjoto, also mentioned plans to commemorate Pancasila Day in Rokan Block. "It is the President's suggestion for regional economy to develop, not be Java-centric," he said on Friday in Jakarta.
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Today, Tuesday (8/9/2022), marks one year since Pertamina took over full management of the Rokan Block, after PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia had managed it since 1924. During the one year of the transfer of management, Pertamina Hulu Rokan (PHR) conducted 370 drillings, more than three times the previous amount.
So, what makes the Rokan Block special? This oil-rich block in Riau province has been controlled by the foreign company, Chevron (United States), for almost a century.
Tracing back through history, the geology team of the Standard Oil Company of California (Socal) has been conducting exploration surveys since 1924 and established NV NPPM in June 1930. It was only in 1935 that the Dutch East Indies government granted rights to the joint company of Socal and Texas Oil Company (Texaco) to establish NV California Texas Petroleum Company (Caltex).
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After the Duri oil field was discovered in August 1941, marking the first discovery of oil in Riau, and other oil fields were subsequently found, production began. The first export started in 1952.
The period from 1970 to the 1990s was the heyday of the Rokan Block, with production reaching 1 million barrels of oil per day or even more. However, this total production decreased in the following years.
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The President Director of PT Pertamina (Persero), Nicke Widyawati (center), at the Digital & Innovation Center (DICE) of Pertamina Hulu Rokan in Pekanbaru, Riau, on Monday (8/8/2022). Pertamina Hulu Rokan has been managing the Rokan Block since August 2021 after being transferred from Chevron's management.
When the contract of PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia (United States) expires in 2021, the Rokan working area will be managed by an Indonesian company, namely Pertamina. However, this SOE does not immediately obtain the management contract for the Rokan block.
Pertamina must win the contract tender from the government. Chevron itself submitted an offer in the tender with hopes of extending the contract.
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However, Pertamina was able to provide a more attractive offer and won the tender. In its proposal, Pertamina stated a signature bonus of 784 million US dollars or around Rp. 11.3 trillion.
In addition, there is still a certain work commitment of 500 million US dollars or around IDR 7.2 trillion and the potential national revenue for the next 20 years of 57 billion US dollars or around IDR 825 trillion.
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President Joko Widodo provided guidance to Pertamina's CEO Nicke Widyawati (second from the right) and several ministers during their visit to Pertamina Hulu Rokan's (PHR) storage tanks in Dumai, Riau Province, on Thursday (5/1/2023).
The management of Rokan Block returned to the hands of the homeland's children on August 9th, 2021. Pertamina handed over the management to its subsidiary, Pertamina Rokan Hulu.
Quoting the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources website on August 1, 2018, the Rokan Block is the largest oil field ever discovered in Indonesia. The area of the block reaches 6,220 square kilometers.
The Rokan Block covers areas in five districts, namely Rokan Hulu, Rokan Hilir, Bengkalis, Siak and Kampar, and has 96 fields. There are three fields that have the potential to produce excellent oil, namely Duri, Minas and Bekasap. The oil reserves owned by the Rokan Block are said to reach 500 million to 1.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent without enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
The problem is that the Rokan block has experienced a decline in production, which in 2020 was only 158,000 barrels per day. The following year, production began to increase to 166,000 barrels per day.
President Joko Widodo has asked Pertamina to increase oil production in the Rokan Block. The production in the Rokan Block is expected to reach 400,000 barrels per day (Kompas.id, 6/1/2023). The government also targets the national oil production to return to the figure of 1 million barrels per day by 2030.
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While encouraging Pertamina's performance, the return of sovereignty over the management of natural resources by the nation's children is truly expected to realize the mandate of Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution, which is to be used to the greatest extent for the prosperity of the people. This has reportedly become the background for selecting the Rokan Block as the location for the 2024 Pancasila Day commemoration.
Jokowi-Megawati "cold war".
On the other hand, the commemoration of Pancasila Day will be held in the midst of a "cold war" between President Jokowi and Megawati Soekarnoputri, Chairperson of the Democratic Party Indonesia Struggle (PDI-P) and Chairman of the BPIP Steering Committee. The relationship between the two is not harmonious after differences in attitudes in the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres).
Amid the heated political climate leading up to the 2024 presidential election, President Joko Widodo had a dinner with Defense Minister and presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta on Friday (5/1/2023).
President Jokowi seems to support presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, who is accompanied by Gibran Rakabuming Raka as his vice presidential candidate, while PDI-P is endorsing Ganjar Pranowo-Mahfud MD.
Will the commemoration of Pancasila Day become a meeting opportunity for President Jokowi and Megawati? So far, many have suspected that they will not meet in the near future.
Looking back, Megawati, who was defeated by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the 2004 presidential election, felt betrayed. They only met at events that could not be avoided, such as when drawing the number of presidential and vice-presidential candidates in the 2009 election commission and the commemoration of Pancasila Day on June 1, 2010 at the MPR/DPR Building.
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Megawati is also recorded as having met with President SBY during the awarding of the Bintang Adipradana to Taufiq Kiemas at the State Palace on August 12, 2011, and the awarding of national hero titles to Soekarno-Hatta, represented by Guntur Soekarnoputra and Meutia Hatta, at the State Palace on November 7, 2012.
A painting of President Megawati Soekarnoputri by Robby Lulianto and a painting of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono by Melodia.
Jokowi, who was "raised" by PDI-P and then turned around to "defeat" the party in the 2024 presidential election, certainly left a stronger feeling than in the 2004 election. Jokowi was not invited to the PDI-P National Work Meeting in Ancol, Jakarta, on Friday (May 24, 2024).
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Likewise, during the 51st anniversary of PDI-P at the Party School in Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta on January 10th, Jokowi chose to visit abroad as if avoiding the event.
This time, Jokowi is enjoying a holiday together at Gedung Agung Yogyakarta because he did not receive an invitation to the PDI-P National Conference V. Therefore, only time can tell whether the Pancasila Day will bring Jokowi and Megawati back together again.
