Day: January 29, 2024

As explained in the previous article, Tom Lembong’s appearance to the public caused commotion. But the public actually know that each presidential and vice presidential candidate has oligarchic support even before Jatam published their latest press release and website, therefore this topic will not attract that much attention if the parties did not decide to hold a public feud. What is interesting for us is a different question from several parties, has Tom Lembong —during his time as head of BKPM— ever made any destructive decisions?

On Jan, 26, 2024, the Mining Advocacy Network (Jaringan Advokasi Tambang – Jatam), a non-governmental organization that focuses on human rights, gender, environmental, indigenous people and social justice issues in the mining and oil and gas industry, published a press release reviewing the network of mining and energy oligarchs in the camps of each presidential and vice presidential candidate.