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