apakah ini konteksnya?

When a company, organization or individual uses their resources to obtain an economic gain from others without reciprocating any benefits back to society through wealth creation.

Dari keterangan wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
In economics, rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth, for example, spending money on political lobbying in order to be given a share of wealth that has already been created..

Lalu, economic rent sendiri adalah:
Economic rent is technical terminology used by economists to define one aspect of the price of goods and services. Generally, it designates the difference between the raw costs of everything needed to produce the goods or service and the price.

Jadi, kegiatan rent-seeking itu bukan kegiatan yang halal dan netral. Ada manipulasi di dalamnya. Dalam contoh wikipedia di atas, lobi politik dilakukan demi ikut menikmati lebihan atau margin (rent dari kegiatan yang sudah ada dengan mekanisme pasar yang stabil. Contohnya adalah regulasi jeruk pontianak dan cengkeh di zaman Orde Baru.

Berdasarkan rujukan di bawah ini mengenai pengertian 'rent seeking', contoh2 'rent seeking', dan istilah bermakna selaras dg 'rent seeking' yg biasa digunakan di dunia bisnis Indonesia, saya mengusulkan:

rent seeking = pencarian fasilitas khusus

Rujukan:
An example of rent-seeking is when a company lobbies the government for loan subsidies, grants or tariff protection.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp#axzz1vBn...

It is important to distinguish between profit-seeking and rent-seeking. Profit-seeking is the creation of wealth, while rent-seeking is the use of social institutions such as the power of government to redistribute wealth among different groups without creating new wealth.[1]
Rent-seeking generally implies extraction of uncompensated value from others without making any contribution to productivity. The origin of the term refers to gaining control of land or other pre-existing natural resources. In a modern economy, a more common example of rent-seeking would be political lobbying to obtain government benefits/subsidies or to impose burdensome regulations on competitors in order to increase market share.
Studies of rent-seeking focus on efforts to capture special monopoly privileges such as manipulating government regulation of free enterprise competition.[2] The term monopoly privilege rent-seeking is an often-used label for this particular type of rent-seeking. Often-cited examples include a lobby that seeks tariff protection, quotas, subsidies[3], or extension of copyright law.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Menkeu: Usaha Berorientasi Non-Ekspor Bakal Terima Fasilitas Khusus
Untuk jenis usaha yang berorientasi memasarkan produk di dalam negeri ini, kata Agus, pemerintah juga akan memberikan fasilitas bea masuk ditanggung pemerintah.
http://www.ipotnews.com/index.php?jdl=Menkeu__Usaha_Berorien...

Pemerintah akan memberikan fasilitas khusus kepada perusahaan yang melakukan impor untuk diperjualbelikan di pasar domestik.
"Nah kalau tujuannya ke pasar dalam negeri, nanti kita siapkan fasilitas khusus, kalau misalnya tujuan dipasarkan ke dalam negeri masukin barang ke Indonesia tidak bayar bea masuk, PPn dan PPh maka istilahnya ditangguhkan," ungkap Agus Marto kala ditemui usai Rapat Dengar Pendapat (RDP) di Komisi VI DPR RI, Senayan, Jakarta, Rabu (1/2/2012).
http://economy.okezone.com/read/2012/02/01/320/567815/fasili...

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Note added at 16 hrs (2012-05-18 03:58:28 GMT)
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Rent dalam konteks rent seeking ini:
bukan pencarian keuntungan (profit), karena profit diperoleh dg cara yg wajar;

bukan pula rente/sewa, karena rente/sewa diperoleh dg cara yg wajar;

Berdasarkan definisi dan contoh rent seeking pada rujukan jawaban saya, konsep 'rent seeking' ini merupakan cara memperoleh keuntungan diri/golongan melalui cara2 yg bertentangan dg konsep persaingan bebas dan wajar di dunia bisnis.

Rent dalam rent seeking diperoleh melalui lobi2 politik dan KKN.