Jakarta, Oct. 5 -- The Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources stated that it is actively seeking countries with surplus fuel supplies to secure Indonesia's national stock.

"What we are doing now is hunting to keep the national stocks secure," the ministry's Director General of Oil and Gas, Laode Sulaeman, said during the 2026 Regional Inflation Control Coordination Meeting, monitored online on Monday.

Laode explained that this approach differs from the previous procurement method, which relied on tenders. The shift was prompted by a lack of tender participants after the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East.

He stated that Indonesia lost 25 percent of its import sources after war broke out between the United States, Isra...