Purbaya Calls The Original Price Of Elpiji Rp12,750, Bahlil: Misread The Data

JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia responded to the statement of the Minister of Finance Purbaya Yudhi Sadive regarding the price of 3 kg LPG after being subsidized at Rp12,750 per tube.

Bahlil assessed that Purbaya read the wrong data from his subordinates at the Ministry of Finance. Moreover, he continued, as the new Minister of Finance, Purbaya was still making a number of adjustments.

"It might be that the Minister of Finance read the data wrongly. It's normal if, yes, maybe it needs adjustment. I can't respond to something that's always like this," Bahlil told the media crew when met at the BPH Migas Office, Thursday, October 2.

According to him, currently the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is still maturating 3 kg LPG subsidies for 2026.

"Maybe the Minister of Finance has not been given input by his director-general properly or by his team. So maybe the Minister, Minister of Finance, yes, maybe he hasn't read the data that time, right," continued Bahlil.

To finalize the plan, Bahlil admitted that he collaborated with the Central Statistics Agency to take advantage of the National Sole Social and Economic Data (DTSEN) in order to screen people who are entitled to use 3 kg subsidized LPG.

"BPS is a collaboration with the team at ESDM," said Bahlil.

Previously, the Minister of Finance, Purbaya Yudhi Sadive, revealed that the prices of a number of energy and non-energy commodities consumed by the community were different from the original.

For LPG gas, the actual price is IDR 42,750 per cylinder, however, with a subsidy of IDR 30,000 per cylinder, the public only pays IDR 12,750.

"The government has so far borne the difference between economic prices and prices paid by the community through the provision of subsidies and compensation for both energy and non-energy," he said in a working meeting with Commission XI of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Tuesday, September 30.

Meanwhile, for Pertalite, the original price is Rp. 11,700 per liter, but it is sold to the public at a price of Rp. 10,000 per liter and which is borne by the state budget of Rp. 1,700 per liter.

Meanwhile, kerosene still gets a large subsidy, which is Rp. 8,650 per liter, from the economic price of Rp. 11,150 per liter, so that the selling price to the public is only Rp. 2,500 per liter.