About Us

Ashok who was the General Manager Finance of The Tata Power Company Limited, Mumbai, India, was transferred to Indonesia in August 2007 as Chief Financial Officer of PT Kaltim Prima Coal when Tata Power took a 30% stake. At present he looks after Finance and Commercial, Supply Chain Management and Business Improvement.

Under his guidance a number of measures have been taken to reduce cost of production. He is also associated with the expansion plan presently being undertaken by the company. He is Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary from India having worked with Tata Group since 1985.

Shane Bennett holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining from the South Australian Institute of Technology, and is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. He has had 21 years experience in mining operations and over 15 years in Indonesian operations, including nine years in the Indonesian coal industry.

Prior to his current position as General Manager Mining Development he held the roles of Manager Mine Planning and Superintendent Resource Planning. Before his employment with KPC he worked for two and a half years with PT Adaro Indonesia.

Wawan Setiawan is a graduate from University of Padjadjaran Bandung and holds a degree in Anthropology. He joined PT kaltim Prima Coal in April 2003. He has wide experiences in many positions related to community relations.

Prior to current position, he had various roles in KPC as Specialist Public Relations, Superintendent Community Relations, Superintendent Community Support, and Manager Bengalon Community Relations and Development of which managed and ensured the operations and KPC program in Bengalon running well. Wawan Setiawan has been the General Manager External Affairs and Sustainable Development (GM ESD) since May 2016.

Mr. Asmit Abdullah is graduate Civil Engineer from University of Sriwijaya. He has extensive experience over 19 years in various positions within KPC. He started join KPC in 1994 a Civil Engineer in Mine Civil Section. He was seconded to Minenco Pty LTD in Australia in 1997, then in 1999 he was appointed Superintendent Mine Rehabilitation & Civil.

From 2002 until 2004 he holds the position as Manager Infrastructure and Civil Projects. In late 2004 he was appointed Performance Improvement Project Leader for one year then appointed as Manager Infrastructure, Civil and Improvement Projects until 2006. From 2006 to 2013 he was appointed as Manager Coal Processing Plant. In December 2013 he was appointed GM Coal Processing & Handling Division. In June 2015, he was appointed GM Supply Chain Division.

Herlan Siagian joined KPC in 1993 after gaining his degree in Mining Engineering in Australia. He commenced his career as a Mining Engineer. After a number of years in the mining field, he joined the Marketing Division gaining wide experience in the sales operation and marketing areas.

In 2001 he transferred to Pacific Coal (Rio Tinto Group) as Marketing Manager based in Brisbane, Australia for over two years. Upon returning to KPC, he continued working as Marketing Manager to market KPC coal for all regions worldwide. In October 2005 he was appointed as General Managers Marketing.

Rio has been serving KPC since November 1999 starting his career as Graduate Accounting and subsequently climbing up the ladder of his career with the last position as Manager Accounting & Tax before promoted as GM Finance in May 2012. He holds degree in Accounting from University of Sriwijaya with wide experience in accounting & tax, treasury, assets management & financing.

Graduated from University Pembangunan Nasional (UPN) “Veteran” Yogyakarta, hold a degree in Mining Engineering. Joined PT. Kaltim Prima Coal in 1997. Has been experienced in various roles within mining operations prior to his promotion to the position of GM Mining Operations in August 2012. Highlight of career with KPC are Mine Manager of Pit Hatari, Superintendent Drill & Blast, Superintendent Pit Technical. Starting career in KPC as Mining Engineer. 

Before joining PT Kaltim Prima Coal he has a various experience and roles in heavy equipment maintenance and management from timber industry and also from oil refinery contractors. He is now responsible for Mining Support Division which includes maintenance management on all heavy and mobile equipments operating by PT Kaltim Prima Coal such as diggers, trucks, heavy equipments, support equipment and it’s facility and also fuel distribution to all those fleet. Untung Prihardiyanto holds degree in Economic Management from 17 Agustus University.

After spanning over 17 years of his career in KPC, starting as a Graduate Mechanical Engineer, in 2015 Poltak Sinaga was promoted to the post of General Manager of Coal Processing and Handling Division. Poltak Sinaga has vast experience in project management, operation management, and asset management. He brings a proven track record in the operation, maintenance and engineering of bulk material handling and fixed plant from pit to port. From 2004 to 2013 he successfully led the execution of multi-discipline brown field and green field projects at crushing facility, overland conveyor, coal terminals, and port facility which were parts of expansion program of KPC operation bringing the throughput increase for more than three times during that period. Poltak also worked on a numbers of assignment associated with operational optimization, business process improvement, and strategies across KPC. Poltak Sinaga graduated from Institut Teknologi Bandung in 1997 with a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering and earned his MBA from the same university in 2015.