Bahlil Reports to Prabowo: Indonesia Secures Oil Supply from Russia - LPG to Follow

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia reported to President Prabowo Subianto that the government has secured a supply of crude oil from Russia.

This was revealed by Bahlil after a limited meeting at the State Palace in Jakarta on Thursday (16/4/2026).

As is known, Bahlil had met face-to-face with Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev on Tuesday (15/4/2026). This meeting was a follow-up to high-level discussions between President Prabowo and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin the day before.

Not only securing a crude oil supply, the meeting also resulted in commitments from the Russian side to build infrastructure in Indonesia to enhance energy resilience, according to him.

“Alhamdulillah, following the President’s instructions yesterday, I met with the Energy Minister and Special Envoy from President Putin, and the news is quite encouraging that we will receive crude supplies from Russia and the Russian side is ready to build several important infrastructures to increase our national reserves and energy resilience,” said Bahlil after the meeting at the Palace on Thursday (16/4/2026).

In addition, according to Bahlil, his side is also continuing intensive communications regarding LPG supplies for Indonesia from Russia. As is known, Indonesia imports around 7 million tonnes of LPG every year.

“In addition, we are also communicating regarding LPG. We know that our LPG is around 7 million tonnes imported every year, and now we are diversifying and insya Allah we will also receive support, but this still requires effort and communication in two or three stages, but for the crude, I think it’s almost final,” he said.

However, Bahlil did not want to disclose the volume of crude oil to be imported from Russia. Because there is an agreement prohibiting discussion of the import volume.

But Bahlil emphasised that Indonesia’s crude oil supply until December is assured to be secure.

“For crude, one year from this month until December, insya Allah it’s already secure. So we don’t need to worry; we just need to increase our refinery production,” he stated.