Production Operation and its affiliates are prohibited
from lending funds to Indonesian participants who
will purchase their divestment shares. As a result we
can see in the case of Newmont, where Multicapital
as an Indonesian participant purchasing NNT BV
divestment shares borrowed US $ 300,000,000 to a
foreign party, Credit Suisse Singapore. This case
reflects that the Indonesian participants will seek
loans to other parties to be able to purchase the
divestment shares offered by the foreign investment
companies.
Article 2 Paragraph (7) of Permen ESDM No. 9
of 2017 provides a loophole for majority
shareholders, in the case of Newmont above is NNT
BV, to reduce the dividend income for Indonesian
participants as minority shareholders which may
result in payment of dividends that do not meet the
expectations of Indonesian investors. As in the case
of Newmont, the DMB did not gain any profit
because the dividends received were used to pay its
debts to Credit Suisse Singapore. NNT BV as the
majority shareholder in this case can ensure that the
company owes funds from related shareholders or
similar entities and may transfer income from other
shareholders, such as the Indonesian shareholders to
affiliated companies (Manley & Bria, 2017).
The second factor that can be a barrier to the
government in achieving the main objective of the
mandatory Shares Divestment policy in the mining
sector is the ownership of shares by Indonesian
participants can actually reduce the number of
Indonesian workers and business opportunities for
the people of Indonesia (Manley & Bria, 2017).
Acquisition of shares affecting control holders in
mining companies may create opportunities for
Indonesian participants to open new businesses and
create jobs in the mining sector for Indonesians.
Networks owned by foreign companies previously
may develop domestic connections following the
transfer of ownership and control of the company to
Indonesian participants. However, this is likely to be
difficult because foreign investment companies will
not release the connections they previously had for
free. Foreign companies have spent most of the cost
of mining projects during the development process
and the first 10 years of production. During the two
processes, foreign companies have established a
network of suppliers that foreign firms can keep in
order to maintain maximum dividends from their
remaining shares and continuous supply can
generate new business for foreign companies. The
possibility of achieving the goal of increasing the
number of Indonesian workers in the mining sector
will also be difficult to achieve, since a change of
ownership does not always guarantee an increasing
number of domestic workers. Logically, if this
divestment provision causes investment activity in
the mining sector to decline significantly, then
employment for the people of Indonesia also
decreased.
4.2 Requiring Divestment Will Charge
Large Expenses for Indonesia
The provisions on divestment for foreign investment
companies in the mining sector will not be far from
the possibility that there will be a significant share
price discount, given the ability of Indonesian
participants in the mining sector will not be able to
meet the divestment share price offered by the
foreign companies. In other words, the divestment
rules can hinder foreign investment and thus the
overall development in the mining sector.
Analogously, foreign investors will find it hard to
expect anything to receive sufficient returns to pay
their costs and creditors to satisfy their shareholders,
if at the end of their shares should be divested by
possibly lower than they expect.
This can be attributed to several factors, such as
the enormous cost and potential decline in foreign
investment activities in the mining sector
significantly in the future. This enormous cost will
collide with the interests of the government also in
terms of building infrastructure in the country. The
reduction of the state budget for the purchase of
shares of divestment has far less benefits for the
Indonesian people in general. It is also written by
Michael Agustinus, the Indonesian government has
reached a divestment agreement with 51%
(Agustinus, 2017) of PT Freeport Indonesia. The
Indonesian participant who will purchase the
divestment is a holding of state-owned mines
consisting of PT Inalum, PT Aneka Tambang Tbk,
PT Timah Tbk and PT Bukit Asam Tbk. The
problem arising from this agreement is the
insufficient amount of assets from the holding of the
BUMN to meet the divestment price of shares
offered by PT Freeport Indonesia.
Through the debt, the holding assets of BUMN
will not be able to buy Freeport shares divestment
(Agustinus, Berapa Harga 51% Saham Freeport? Ini
Hitung-hitungannya, 2017). It was not feasible
because it would violate the rules of debt to equity
ratio. Based on an article written by Amy Gallo, the
debt to equity ratio in general must be balanced
(Gallo, 2015). Based on the calculation formula of
debt to equity ratio, if the value of a company's debt
is higher than the value of assets owned, it will be