Harita Nickel has a smelting-company shareholder tied to Como 1907’s owners, the Hartono family. The family holds a stake in a smelting company within Indonesia’s Harita Nickel project, where residents have reported pollution, land disputes and pressure to relocate. Josimar’s “I wish I had a nickel” investigation traces that interest through companies tied to the owners of The Djarum Group, whose Italian football club has risen into Europe’s elite.
The stake connects the family’s expanding business portfolio to a nickel operation whose local effects have drawn complaints from residents and environmental groups. The investigation says the family owns 23% of PT Halmahera Jaya Feronikel, a downstream smelting company in the Harita Nickel project on Obi Island.
Its account of the ownership links describes a corporate chain from PT Halmahera Jaya Feronikel through PT Obira Mitra Jaya and PT Sarana Cipta Multiniaga to companies tied directly to Robert Budi Hartono and his family. The Hartonos control Djarum, the conglomerate that took charge of Como in 2019.
The “I Wish I Had” Ownership Investigation
The story places the investment alongside Como’s rapid sporting rise and the family’s ot...