Jakarta. Chief of Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto said the government’s plan to channel strategic natural resource exports through state-owned exporter Danantara Sumberdaya Indonesia (DSI) is aimed at tightening oversight and ensuring export earnings benefit the domestic economy, not restricting private businesses.

Airlangga said the policy was designed to ensure proceeds from strategic commodity exports flow back into Indonesia and strengthen the country’s economic foundation over the long term.

“The government is not limiting the business sector’s room to operate. We are restructuring the system so that the economic pie can be enjoyed sustainably,” Airlangga said during a public briefing on strategic commodity export governance and the implementation of export proceeds regulations at the Coordinating Economic Ministry office in Jakarta on Thursday.

Airlangga said that the government has prepared two main pillars under the new policy framework. The first focuses on optimizing export proceeds (DHE) so that export earnings are retained within Indonesia’s financial system. The second involves regulating strategic natural resource exports through PT Danantara Sumberdaya Indonesia.

He said all exports of strategic natural resources would eventually be carried out through PT DSI as the designated state-owned export company. The move is intended to strengthen supervision over exports and foreign exchange earnings while improving the integration and validity of Indonesia’s trade data.

The government also sees the new export governance system as a way to reduce trade misinvoicing, a practice involving discrepancies in the reporting of international trade values.

“The goal is to strengthen control and supervision over exports and export proceeds from strategic natural resource commodities, so we can build more valid and integrated trade data and reduce or eliminate trade misinvoicing,” Airlangga said.

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