Mobil Oil is a multinational oil and gas corporation with a long history of working in Indonesia. One of the most controversial periods in Mobil’s history in Indonesia was its relationship with the Jakarta government.
In the early 1990s, the Indonesian government began to award production sharing contracts (PSCs) to foreign oil companies. These contracts gave the companies a share of profits from the sale of oil and gas extracted from the country. Mobil was one of the companies that …