Medco shows the way ahead for Indonesia

The successful restructuring of energy company Medco shows what can be achieved in the byzantine and often murky world of Indonesian restructurings. With creditors all paid out and the family back in control, plans are afoot for a rapid expansion and an overseas listing.

IT IS DRESS casual day at the Jakarta head offices of PT Medco Energi Internasional one of Indonesia’s leading oil and gas businesses. In addition to jeans and baggy cotton shirt, Hilmi Panigoro, the CEO, is sporting a broad grin. Well he might, for the ink has just dried on an agreement that finally returns the company to control of the Panigoro family after almost nine years. Like many Indonesian companies immediately after the financial meltdown in Asia, Medco was caught out badly, with large amounts of dollar-denominated debt and hundreds of petrified foreign creditors.

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