Jakarta (The Indonesian News) – Chief Operating Officer of Danantara Indonesia, Dony Oskaria, has affirmed that the establishment of PT Danantara Sumber Daya Indonesia (Persero), or DSI, is not intended to take over export activities or to act as a natural resource export intermediary that would harm businesses.
On the contrary, he emphasized that DSI was formed to ensure that Indonesia’s strategic natural resource commodities are sold at their true value.
Thus, he said, DSI’s presence aims to prevent fraudulent export practices such as transfer pricing and under-invoicing, which have long harmed the state.
“We are simply ensuring our goal is actually, ‘Hey, you’re selling at the right price, right?’ That’s truly our objective. Not taking their goods and becoming a middleman who then sells them,” Dony explained in the “Bukan Kaleng-Kaleng” podcast, as quoted on Thursday (June 11, 2026).
Dony emphasized that the government established DSI based on conditions observed in the field.
He explained that Indonesia has long faced the practice of transfer pricing selling exports at lower prices to affiliated companies owned by exporters as well as under-invoicing, which is reporting export values lower than their actual worth, thereby reducing state revenue.
The government, he continued, certainly does not want these practices to continue. He affirmed that Indonesia no longer wants to be harmed by rogue exporters so that the state and the people can obtain optimal benefits from export activities.
“What matters is that the goal is that transfer pricing must not occur, under-invoicing must not occur. So how does the government monitor this? DSI was established,” he added.
Furthermore, Dony said that preventing transfer pricing and under-invoicing will be DSI’s main priority during the transition period of the single-door natural resource export policy, from June 1 to December 31, 2026.
During this transition period, businesses or exporters may continue their export activities as usual, but they are required to report their export activities to DSI through the export service system of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) under the Ministry of Finance.
However, he asked businesses not to worry about the policy’s implementation during the transition period, as the government will continue to honor existing contracts. Additionally, the policy will be evaluated after three months of implementation.
Thus, Dony affirmed that the government has no interest in destroying the existing trade ecosystem. Rather, the policy is designed to strengthen state revenue, increase businesses’ profits, and create healthier export governance.
“So don’t worry. There is no desire from the government to destroy our revenue system. On the contrary, we want our revenue to become even larger. And what is the impact for those on the stock exchange? With our oversight, our friends on the exchange should become even more confident,” he explained.
Source: Press Release from the Government Communications Agency (Bakom RI) of the Republic of Indonesia
