MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

Report Date :

21.06.2012

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Correct Name :

P.T. ASIANAGRI HILIR

 

 

Formerly Known As :

P.T. ASIANAGRO ABADITAMA

 

 

Registered Office :

Uniplaza Building, East Tower, 6th Floor, Jl. Letjen MT Haryono No. A-1, Medan 20231, North Sumatra

 

 

Country :

Indonesia

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

18.02.1988

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

No. AHU-AH.01.10-17218

 

 

Legal Form :

Limited Liability Company

 

 

Line of Business :

Investment Holding and Management Trust

 

 

No. of Employees :

04

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

B

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

Small

 

Status :

Moderate

Payment Behaviour :

No Complaints

Litigation :

Exists

 

 

NOTES:

Any query related to this report can be made on e-mail: infodept@mirainform.com while quoting report number, name and date.

 

ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31st, 2012

 

Country Name

Previous Rating

(31.12.2011)

Current Rating

(31.03.2012)

Indonesia

B1

B1

 

Risk Category

ECGC Classification

Insignificant

 

A1

Low

 

A2

Moderate

 

B1

High

 

B2

Very High

 

C1

Restricted

 

C2

Off-credit

 

D

 

 


Correct Name of Company

 

P.T. ASIANAGRI HILIR

 

 

company Address

 

Head Office

Uniplaza Building, East Tower, 6th Floor

Jl. Letjen MT Haryono No. A-1

Medan 20231

North Sumatra

Indonesia

Phones             - (62-61) 4532 155, 4532 388, 4532 532

Fax.                  - (62-61) 4532 095, 4530 987

Email                - marketing@asianagri.com

Website            - http://asianagri.com

Building Area     - 18 storey

Office Space      - 220 sq. meters

Region              - Commercial

Status               - Owned by the RGM Group

 

Jakarta Office

Jl. M.H. Thamrin No. 31

Jakarta Pusat 10230

Indonesia

Phones             - (62-21) 2358 6611, 392 3189

Fax.                  - (62-21) 2358 6620, 392 3559

 

 

Date of Incorporation

 

18 February 1988 as P.T. ASIANAGRO ABADITAMA, changed its name to P.T. ASIANAGRI HILIR on August 12, 1996.

 

 

Legal Form

 

P.T. (Perseroan Terbatas) or Limited Liability Company

 


Company Reg.  No.

 

The Ministry of Law and Human Rights

  a.       No. AHU-75550.AH.01.02.Tahun 2008

      Dated 20 October 2008

  b.       No. AHU-AH.01.10-17218

      Dated 08 July 2010

 

 

Company Status

 

Foreign Investment Company (PMA)

 

 

Permit by the Government Department

 

The Department of Finance

NPWP No. 01.793.898.6-072.000

 

Related Company :

A member of the RGM Group

 

 

CAPITAL AND OWNERSHIP

 

Capital Structure :

Authorized Capital                - Rp. 100,000,000,000.-

Issued Capital                      - Rp.   27,750,000,000.-

Paid up Capital                    - Rp.   27,750,000,000.-

 

Shareholders/Owners :

a. FREEMORE VENTURES Ltd.,      - Rp. 27,700,000,000.- (99.82%)

    Address : Seychelles

                    Republic of Seychelles  

b. P.T. ALAMAS KARYA SEJATI     - Rp.        50,000,000.- (  0.18%)

    Address : Jl. Teluk Betung No. 31

                    Jakarta Pusat

                    Indonesia

 

 

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

 

Lines of Business :

Investment Holding and Management Trust

 

Production Capacity :

None

 

Total Investment :

Owned Capital                  - Rp. 27.75 billion

 

Started Operation :

1996

 

Brand Name :

None

 

Technical Assistance :

None

 

Number of Employee :

4 persons                                        

 

Marketing Area :

Local (30%) and Export (70%)

 

 

Main Customers :

Overseas buyers in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and others

 

Market Situation :

Very Competitive

 

Main Competitors :

  a. P.T. MUSIM MAS

  b.  P.T. KARYA PRAJONA NELAYAN (KPN)

  c. P.T. BIMOLI

  d. P.T. SMART CORP Tbk

  e. P.T. SAYAP MAS UTAMA

 

Business Trend :

Growing

 

 

BANKER, AUDITOR & LITIGATION

 

Bankers :

a. P.T. Bank MANDIRI Tbk

    Jl. Balai Kota No. 8-10

    Medan, North Sumatra

    Indonesia

b. P.T. Bank NEGARA INDONESIA Tbk

    Jl. Pemuda No. 12

    Medan, North Sumatra

    Indonesia

 

Auditor :

Internal Auditor

 

Litigation :

On 19 January 2007, the office of P.T. ASIAN AGRI, In Jakarta was ransacked by Directorate General of Tax for alleging tax evasion worth Rp. 2.1 trillion.  Beside in Jakarta, Corruption Eradication Commission and Tax officers also ransacked P.T. ASIAN AGRI office, in Medan, North Sumatra.  An allegation tax evasion case is still under investigation seriously to date.

 

 

FINANCIAL FIGURE

 

Total Income/Revenue (estimated) :

2009 – Rp. 12,160.0 billion

2010 – Rp. 12,510.0 billion

2011 – Rp. 13,930.0 billion

 

Net Profit (Loss) :

2009 – Rp.    980.0 billion

2010 – Rp. 1,005.0 billion

2011 – Rp. 1,120.0 billion

 

 

Payment Manner :

Average

 

Financial Comments :

Satisfactory

 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Board of Management :

Director                    - Mr. Fandy Fong

 

Board of Commissioners :

Commissioner          - Mr. Albert Kwek, SE

 

Signatories :

Director (Mr. Fandy fong) which must be approved by Board of Commissioner (Mr. Albert Kwek, SE)

 

 

CAPABILITIES

 

Management Capability :

Good

 

Business Morality :

Good

 

Credit Risk :

Average

 

 

OVERALL PERFORMANCE

 

Originally named P.T. ASIANAGRO ABADITAMA, it was established in February 1988 with the authorized capital of Rp. 1,000,000,000 of which Rp. 200,000,000 was issued and fully paid up. The founding shareholders are Mrs. Tinah Bengei (wife of Mr. Sukanto Tanoto), Mr. Said Eddy, SH., Mr. Ir. Harijanto Hartono and Mr. Haji Mohamad Lubis.  In April 1997, the company’s name was changed to P.T. ASIANAGRI HILIR is as known as PT. ASIANAGRI.  Concurrently, Mrs. Tinah Bingei, Mr. Ir. Harijanto Hartono and Mr. Haji Mohamad Lubis pulled out and the whole shares are sold to Mr. Sukanto Tanoto and Mr. Said Eddy, SH.

 

In October 2008 the company’s authorized capital was increased again to Rp. 100,000,000,000 of which Rp. 27,750,000,000 was issued and fully paid up.  Since that time, the shareholders of the company are FREEMORE VENTURES Ltd., of Seychelles (99.82%) and PT. ALAMAS KARYA SEJATI of Indonesia (0.18%).  The amendment Article of Association was made by Ms. Linda Herawati, SH., a public notary in Jakarta and it was approved by the Ministry of Law and Human Right in its Decision Letter No. AHU-75550.AH.01.02.Tahun 2008 dated 20 October 2008 and No. AHU-AH.01.10-17218 dated 08 July 2010. No changes have been effected in term of its owner composition and capital structures to date.

 

We are extremely difficult to trace or investigate the shareholders of FREEMORE VENTURES Ltd., as this company is incorporated under law of the Republic of Seychelles. But we allege or estimate that the owners of this company are the number of Indonesian businessmen, and one of them is Mr. Sukanto Tanoto AKA Lim Sui Hang AKA He Sui Hang.

 

P.T. ASIANAGRI is parent company of ASIAN AGRI Group, a sub-group of the RGM Group. P.T. ASIAN AGRI is engaged in investment holding by controlling 99% shares of P.T. ASIANAGRO AGUNGJAYA dealing with integrated edible vegetable oil and fats manufacturing and 82.96% shares of P.T. INTI INDOSAWIT SUBUR deal with integrated palm oil plantation.

 

Pursuant to internet, ASIAN AGRI Group currently owns 28 palm oil plantations and operates 19 palm oil mills in Sumatra. We are also in partnership with 11 Plasma and KKPA estates. Our mills process palm fruits from all 160,000 hectares of land which are under cultivation. The 19 existing mills have the capacity to produce around 1 million metric tonnes of Crude Palm Oil (CPO).

The CPO extraction process begins with the harvested ripe Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) being transported from plantation to mill. The FFB then undergoes a one-and-a-half hour steam-sterilization process, which also facilitates the separation of the fruitlets from the bunch body. The fruitlets move on to a pressing station where the palm oil is extracted and then passed through a clarification process to remove moisture, solids and impurities.

 

ASIAN AGRI Group currently has 4 refineries in operation located in Indonesia and China. To date, our refineries produce approximately 1.7 million metric tones of CPO per annum with plans to increase production to 2.7 million MT per annum. Our Biodiesel plant in Dumai which has capacity of 400,000 tones per annum. This plan aims to cater for an expanding demand in domestic and international markets.

 

We observed that P.T. ASIAN AGRI or the ASIAN AGRI Group is classified as a large sized company of its kind in the country of which the operation has been growing in the last three years.

 

Generally outlook, the demand for CPO and PKO products has kept on rising well within the last five years in line with the increasingly growing demand for CPO and PKO products both from the local and foreign market. From the production sector, Indonesian CPO and PKO production has kept on rising significantly. The increase in production is caused by the increasingly growing wider of new oil palm estate development and production in Indonesia within the last several years. Besides, the national cooking oil production has kept on increasing in the last five years in line with the changing of the publics’ consumption patterns from using coconut cooking oil to palm cooking oil. Palm oil may tumble as much as 7.4 percent by the end of October 2010 as Malaysian production rebounds and Indonesian growers speed up shipments because of an export tax, according to Godrej International Ltd. Indonesia said August 2010 that production may fall to 19.0 million and 20 million tons, from 21 million in 2009. Global vegetable-oil demand will increase by 4.5 million tons in the year beginning Oct. 1, 2010 exceeding the 3.8 million tons increase in supply, Ministry said. The national crude palm oil, palm kernel oil production has kept on increasing in the last five years in line with the changing of the publics’ consumption patterns from using coconut cooking oil to palm cooking oil.

 

Indonesia’s Production, Consumption, Export of CPO, 2006-2010*

Year

Production (Thousand Ton)

Consumption

(Thousand Ton)

Export

(Thousand Ton)

2006

16,05

3,7

12,54

2007

17,27

4,0

12,65

2008

19,20

4,5

14,61

2009

21,14

4,9

16,94

  2010*

22,30

5,1

17,15

    Source: Agriculture Ministry, GAPKI

    *) Estimated by GAPKI (Indonesian Pal Oil Association)

 

Until this time P.T. ASIAN AGRI has not been registered with Indonesian Stock Exchange, so that they shall not obliged to announce their financial statement. We observed that total income/revenue of the company in 2009 amounted of Rp. 12,160.0 billion increased to Rp. 12,510.0 billion in 2010 and rose again to Rp. 13,930.0 billion in 2011.   The operation in 2011 yielded an estimated net profit at least Rp. 1,120.0 billion and the company has an estimated total net-worth at Rp. 1,250.0 billion.  It is forecasted that total sales turnover of the company will increase at least 10% in 2012.

 

On 19 January 2007, the office of P.T. ASIAN AGRI, In Jakarta was ransacked by Directorate General of Tax for alleging tax evasion worth Rp. 2.1 trillion.  Beside in Jakarta, Corruption Eradication Commission and Tax officers also ransacked P.T. ASIAN AGRI office, in Medan, North Sumatra.  An allegation tax evasion case is still under investigation seriously to date.

 

Since July 2010, the management of the company has been led by Mr. Fandy Fong (50), a professional manager as director and he is assisted by Mr. Albert Kwek, SE. (49) as Commissioner.  But, we believe that the prime-mover of the company is Mr. Sukanto Tanoto AKA Lim Sui Hang AKA He Sui Hang (63), the founder and owner of the RAJA GARUDA MAS Group or RGM Group, a large sized company group in Indonesia.  Mr. Sukanto Tanoto has close relation with high-ranking officers during Soeharto’s government era and high-ranking officers of the army.  He reportedly has close relation with crony of the late former President Soeharto. In mid 2008, FORBES ASIA Magazine stated that Mr. Sukanto Tano is one of the ten richest businessmen in Indonesia with a net-worth of US$ 1.43 billion equivalent Rp. 14.3 trillion.

 

In early 2007, the Directorate General of Tax and the Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) ransacked the offices of P.T. ASIAN AGRI in Jakarta and Medan in line with tax evasion of Rp. 2.1 trillion. Up to present, the tax evasion case has been investigating. The Directorate General of Tax and the Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) will carry out the same action on a number of other company members of the RGM Group.

 

In view of the negative factors and unstable economic condition in the country, we recommend to treat prudently in business transaction and in extending a loan to P.T. ASIAN AGRI and company members of the RGM Group.

 

Attachment:

 

Judicial corruption taskforce visits ex-Asian Agri executive

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Wed, 02/17/2010 12:26 PM

Members of the presidential judicial corruption taskforce visited Wednesday former financial controller of palm oil giant PT Asian Agri who is serving an 11-year jail term for money laundering and theft of the company’s assets.

Taskforce secretary Denny Indrayana and member Mas Achmad Santosa met with Vincentius Amin Sutanto behind closed doors at the Cipinang detention center in East Jakarta. Chairman of the Witness and Victim Protection Institute (LPSK) Abdul Haris Semendawai accompanied the taskforce members to the meeting.

Neither Denny nor Mas Achmad was available for comment concerning their visit, kompas.com reported.

In 2008, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that imprisoned Vincentius for the crime and ordered him to pay Rp 28.3 billion and S$23,000 in restitution to Asian Agri.

The theft has led the Attorney General’s Office to alleged tax evasion worth Rp 1.4 trillion involving Raja Garuda Mas, the parent company of Asian Agri. The state prosecutors and the tax office launched a joint investigation into the case last year, but there have been no developments so far.

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/17/judicial-corruption-taskforce-visits-exasian-agri-executive.html

Asian Agri tax manager fails to attend trial due to sickness

The Jakarta Post | National | Wed, 02/23/2011 8:30 PM

The tax manager of agribusiness giant PT Asian Agri failed Wednesday to attend a tax evasion trial at the Central Jakarta District Court due to his sickness.

“[The trial has been postponed] until further notice, until the panel of judges is informed of the defendant's dismissal from the hospital,” Presiding Judge Martin Ponto said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

Prosecutors are demanding that the manager, Suwir Laut, be sentenced to six years in prison in a case that allegedly caused Rp 1,259 trillion (US$ 142.2 million) in state losses.

His lawyers were scheduled to convey their objections on Wednesday.  Mohammad Assegaf, one of the lawyers, said that his team had actually prepared the note of objection.  Suwir was reportedly undergoing treatment for gall bladder complications.

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/02/23/asian-agri-tax-manager-fails-attend-trial-due-sickness.html


Asian Agri tax manager walks free

The Jakarta Post | National | Fri, 03/16/2012 9:51 AM

Suwir Laut: The tax manager of agribusiness giant PT Asian Agri. Suwir Laut.

JAKARTA: The tax manager of agribusiness giant PT Asian Agri was acquitted of a tax evasion charges by the Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday.

The panel of judges said that the prosecutors’ indictment was weak.

“We hereby declare that prosecutors’ indictment is premature. And because of that the charge is unacceptable,” presiding judge Martin Ponto said on Thursday.

The panel of judges said that the prosecutors should have asked the Taxation Directorate General to issue a tax calculation form for the defendant.

Prosecutors demanded that the manager, Suwir Laut, be sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for allegedly submitting a false tax reports between 2002 and 2005 that allegedly caused Rp 1.259 trillion (US$137 million) in state losses.

Suwir’s attorney, Muhammad Assegaf, said that the judge ruling did not state whether his client was guilty or not, only saying that the indictment was premature.

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/03/16/asian-agri-tax-manager-walks-free.html


 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.55.86

UK Pound

1

Rs.87.93

Euro

1

Rs.70.88

 

INFORMATION DETAILS

 

Report Prepared by :

MNL

 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

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NB

New Business

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This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

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