The Success Story of a Bandung Man's Career in a Qatari Oil and Gas Company

The Story of a Man from Bandung Who Achieved Career Success in a Qatari Oil and Gas Company

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Jakarta, VIVA - Data from the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2025 indicates that the number of Indonesian citizens in Qatar reaches 27,647, consisting of professionals, skilled workers, and domestic workers.

The sectors that employ the most Indonesian workers are aviation, hospitality, and oil and gas.

For information, Qatar is one of the six wealthy or petrodollar countries in the Middle East. The other five are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman.

All six are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), often nicknamed “The Big Guys” due to their significant influence. Nino Fediawan Kusmedi is one of the tens of thousands of Indonesian citizens working in Qatar, a country rich in natural gas, specifically at Oryx GTL as an internal auditor.

Here, he not only works as an auditor but also holds a key position as the head of the internal audit department at a leading Qatari oil and gas company.

Oryx GTL is a company resulting from a collaboration between Qatar Petroleum and Sasol South Africa, which operates a Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) processing plant. GTL diesel, naphtha, and LPG are produced in the industrial city of Ras Laffan, located about 80 kilometers north of Doha, the capital of Qatar.

Nino, as he is affectionately known, recounts that the scope of internal audit at Oryx GTL includes financial, commercial, operational, information technology, and all other company activities.

“It wasn’t easy to achieve this position, but it’s not impossible as long as you have accounting and auditing skills supported by relevant international certifications and mastery of the lingua franca, as well as an understanding of various industries,” Nino recalled when speaking with VIVA.

According to this bespectacled man, there are not many auditors from Indonesia working in Qatar, because most of the economy in the Gulf country is still focused on the oil and gas sector, so the majority of migrant workers work in the technical and operational parts of the oil and gas industry, from upstream to downstream.

As head of internal audit, Nino is functionally directly responsible to the audit and risk committee, which consists of directors and representatives from both shareholders, namely Qatar Petroleum and Sasol.