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The earliest entity linked to RS Group’s garlic imports appears to be CV Ocean Semarang , which imported garlic exclusively in 2020 . The company is registered in Jl. Pedurungan Tengah 6 No 13, Pedurungan Tengah, Pedurungan District, Semarang City, an area characterized primarily by residential housing rather than large-scale commercial activity. Another relatively new and unexpected entrant into Indonesia’s garlic import market — alongside figures such as Timothy Savitri, Basuki Hariman and Martin Zefanya is RS Group , a small and largely unknown import and legal consultancy based in Semarang. https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/109835630329540181071/reviews All of the current following RS Groups’ company addresses are located in Tlogosari Kulon, Pedurungan, Semarang City. They are usually residential addresses, some of them are used twice. Jl. Bledak Kantil IV №19 (2x) Jl. Perum Syuhada Permai Kav.6 No.5 Jl. Syuhada Barat II №26 Jl. Syuhada Permai Kav 6 No. 5 Jl. Tlogo Mukti Raya №11...

Another significant player in Indonesia’s garlic import market besides Timothy Savitri  and Basuki Hariman is Martin Zefanya , a figure who remains largely opaque. Little public information is available about him, and no photograph could be found online. Martin Zefanya was born in Jakarta in 1968 and is currently based in Semarang. Corporate records show that he is affiliated to at least 18 companies involved in garlic imports , although his precise operational role within these firms — and any political connections he may have — remain unclear. In September 2022, Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoned Martin Zefanya as a witness in its investigation into a mining permit corruption case involving former Tanah Bumbu Regent Mardani H. Maming . Public records do not specify the reason for his summons, nor clarify his role or connection to the case. According to a company prospectus , he sold PT Singamas Rajaniaga (a sugar distribution company) to Andreas Utom...

 In 2025, the garlic import market appears, at first glance, highly fragmented. Trade data lists 88 Garlic importers in 2025. No single company dominates. The biggest importer accounts for only about 3% of total declared import value that these 88 companies brought into Indonesia. Even the top ten firms together make up just about 21%. By that measure, the market seems competitive: many players, but no clear dominant firm. However, if one traces people across these companies, the same individuals recur on the corporate paperwork across multiple importing entities. In fact, so much so that only a few repeat-player clusters emerge. If one adds up imports at the cluster level, concentration snaps into view. Hence this article will show one cluster controlled by a partner of Haji Isam. Timothy Savitri (often referred to as Mothy ) is an Indonesian entrepreneur involved in real estate, garlic import and coal mining. He was born 29 January 1981 in Martapura, just next to Banjarbaru, in S...

Meet Basuki Hariman: priest, corruption convict, meat import businessman, and since recently also one of Indonesia’s largest garlic importers. He is part of a small circle of men who, a close reading of import trade data suggests, have captured much of Indonesia’s roughly USD 650m-a-year garlic import trade. Basuki with KPK vest In early 2017 he and a close associate, Ng Fenny, were arrested by Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commissions, the Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), for bribing an Indonesian Constitutional Court justice, Patrialis Akbar, to influence a judicial review. Basuki’s business involved importing beef from countries like Australia and the USA. The enactment of the 2014 law allowed the government to import buffalo meat from India, which led to lower market prices and decreased demand for his company’s imported beef. ( By winning the judicial review, he hoped to stop or limit these buffalo meat imports to protect his business interests. (74/PID.SUS/TPK/2017/PN.Jk...