Minor part is we have to look at their history. All those shipyard were made to service specific area or purposes at first. Time goes then the merge happen, but it didnt go as expected, some still need to be nurtured by govt project to stay alive.I am always pondering about how came PT DKB and PT PAL and other SOE shipyard who had same exact business line is under many different management units and very differs at performance. If anything, there should be efforts to merger all of Indonesian government owned Shipyard and too research and designing facilities into one SOE company. Very like what France do with their NAVAL group. Thus there is also efforts to Made them into open Corporate by publishing IPO and must be handle by professional managerial teams with open accounting.
The list is
PT PAL Surabaya, location in Surabaya. Main business Shipyard, research and development of vessels, electrical components, rigs oil manufacturing and so on.
PT Dok dan perkapalan Surabaya, location in Surabaya. Main business repairing workshop and maintenance for ships.
PT Industri Kapal Indonesia, location Makassar. Main business, Shipyard manufacturing especially for Eastern Indonesia needs.
PT Dok dan perkapalan Kodja Bahari, location Jakarta. This Shipyard actually had four Shipyard facilities as part of merger of four Shipyard in Jakarta before. Main business is Shipyard manufacturing and MRO business.
To Made them into one big business unit should cut unnecessary red tape process and easier to handle negotiation for imported items and foreign related business.
Though it is just my opinion for now.
Major part from my point of view is "hidup segan mati tak mau", when you merge companies and not having enough project to feed the size then its going to be lay off. This is bad advertising, best course of action in political glasses is to let them be as is.
I personally not a fans of SOE, my recent encounter regarding Covid vaccine pretty much re-afirm my view of SOE. They might be far different field then shipyard but the culture and the way their Director conduct business is not much different then Soeharto era. Got the project - sell/ask private sector to do it - receive the fee - Publish the news that they were capable to do the job
But, this Eric Tohir guy move so far really mean business. Some of his move was bold and he is so far smart enough to balance the "kepentingan politik" surrounding SOE in-line with his strategic move. There are resistance but until now is still manageable. I can see the SOE starting to shine again and serve its purpose if he manage to stay put until his terms end. Until then I still stand my ground and say sell those non strategic, non PSO state own enterprise
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