I just read this news on The Jakarta Globe
Bakrie Joins forces with Rothschild Banking Dynasty in Major New Coal Deal
Eric Onstad & Janeman Latul | November 16, 2010
London/Jakarta. Indonesia’s powerful Bakrie family has joined forces with the Rothschild banking dynasty to cement its dominance of Indonesia’s booming coal sector, announcing a deal that will combine stakes in three companies and list in London.
Bakrie Group, run by the family of politician and tycoon Aburizal Bakrie, is joining miner Berau Coal with prize asset Bumi Resources in a share swap deal with Vallar, the mining investment fund established by financier Nathaniel Rothschild earlier this year.
Bakrie will gain majority control of London-listed Vallar and rename it Bumi Plc, a symbol of a move that means Indonesia’s biggest coal producer gains a greater share of the global market.
“This is a reverse takeover where the Bakrie Group is regrouping its coal mining assets,” said Norico Gaman, the head of research at Jakarta brokerage PT BNI Securities. “Vallar is
only a vehicle for the Bakrie Group to consolidate its assets.”
“Bumi is now aiming to become one of the biggest global players in the coal industry,” Gaman added.
As part of the deal, Vallar will pay $3 billion in cash and new shares to buy a 75 percent stake in Berau and 25 percent of Bumi in its first deal since raising $1.1 billion and listing in July.
“We’ve announced the creation of an Indonesian coal champion ... [that] is going to be the largest supplier of thermal coal to China,” Vallar co-founder Nathaniel Rothschild told a conference call in London.
“This is a business that by 2013 should produce 140 million tons of coal a year.”
Bakrie Group will own 43 percent of Bumi Plc, while 28.3 percent will be owned by existing Vallar ordinary shareholders.
Bakrie & Bros, the holding firm for Bakrie Group, said on Tuesday it swapped 5.2 billion shares in Bumi at Rp 2,500 a share, or a 2 percent discount to Bumi’s closing price on Monday, for new shares in Vallar.
Bakrie & Bros said in a statement it will control management appointments for both Bumi and Vallar.
Bumi already controls 10 percent of the global thermal coal market, while Berau is the fifth biggest coal firm by output in the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, which is seeing growing demand from utilities in India and China.
Shares in Bakrie & Bros closed 5.3 percent higher, while Bumi and Berau both rose 2 percent, to outperform a broader Jakarta market up 0.5 percent.
Credit Suisse was Bakrie’s sole adviser for the deal.
Reuters
Well it is most likely that Bakrie will aim the 2014 presidency. Looking at their back up is Rothschild, I think he will won the election. Hope I was wrong, this is scary. Will Indonesia fall to capitalist lets wait till 2014. This remind me when Rothschild financed Jhon D. Rockefeller with his Standard Oil monopoly in US.
