Bahlil Inaugurates 31 One Price Fuel Distributors From Padang To Ambon

JAKARTA - Minister of Mineral Energy Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia inaugurated 31 One Price Fuel Distributors (BBM) by dragging and centralized at the Integrated Terminal Wayame, Ambon City, Maluku Province.

The price of fuel in a city with a subsidized note will be the same as the price of fuel in remote areas. This is a form of government presence in ensuring the availability of fuel," Bahlil said in his remarks when inaugurating fuel at the Wayame Terminal, Wednesday, December 18.

Bahlil emphasized that the government's concrete efforts to overcome the economic inequality of the people in the 3T area (stayed behind, frontier, and outermost).

"The President (Prabowo) does not want inequality, both the previous President and President Prabowo are of the view that people's affairs are the most important thing for us to solve to realize social justice for all Indonesian people," he said.

The existence of One Price Fuel, continued Bahlil, is believed to be able to stimulate the economy of remote communities. This is in line with the government's target of achieving economic growth by 8 percent.

"It will not be possible that there will be good economic growth in areas where fuel is not available at affordable prices," he explained.

Prior to the One Price Fuel program, people had to spend more money to buy fuel. Bahlil again told that in 2017 he bought fuel in Wamena, Papua Mountains to reach a pulpit of thousands of rupiah.

"If the weather is bad, the plane can't enter, the price of fuel can reach Rp. 35,000 at that time. Meanwhile, diesel in Java or in areas where there are oil sources and Public Fuel Filling Stations (SPBU), the price at that time was only Rp. 7,000, how many times is it trying to imagine," he said.

Through the inauguration of 31 one-price fuel distributors, the government has succeeded in completing all the development targets for the one-price fuel distribution of 583 points from 2017 to 2019.

The price of fuel in a city with a subsidized note will be the same as the price of fuel in remote areas. This is a form of government presence in ensuring the availability of fuel," said Bahlil.

For information, the inauguration of the 2nd stage of the One Price Fuel in 2024 is divided into several clusters, namely:

a. Sumatra and Kalimantan clusters as many as 6 gas stations centered in Limapuluh Kota Regency, West Sumatra Province;

b. Clusters of Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi as many as 6 gas stations centered in Kupang Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province;

c. The Maluku cluster as many as 9 gas stations were inaugurated at the Integrated Fuel Terminal of PT Pertamina (Persero) Wayame City, Ambon Maluku Province;

d. The Papuan cluster is 10 gas stations centered at the PT Pertamina (Persero) fuel terminal in Fakfak Regency, West Papua Province.