Pertamina is an Indonesian Oil & Gas corporation that wishes to enter India & is competing against Reliance Industries Limited. 

a. As a consultant, you are required to recommend whether backward integration or forward integration is a superior strategy to compete against RIL in India? Which one of the alternatives would you choose to your client & why? Justify with reasons.

b. In your opinion, in case Petramina wishes to diversify into unrelated diversification, which sector in India would you consider as attractive for the company to diversify? Choose only 1 sector. Specify statistics such as Growth potential of that sector, advantages of doing business in that sector, etc.