Bad News From The Ministry Of Energy And Mineral Resources For Boarding House Entrepreneurs: 450 VA Boarding House Electricity Subsidies Will Be Revoked

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) is studying to eliminate electricity subsidies for 450 volt amperes (VA) in 2022. One of them is the provision of subsidies for boarding houses. The reason is because the provision of 450 VA electricity subsidies for boarding houses is not on target.

The Director General of Electricity at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Rida Mulyana, emphasized that his party plans to revoke electricity subsidies for parties deemed inappropriate to receive government assistance.

"So the boarding houses that receive electricity subsidies because they installed 450 VA are what we will remove (from the list of subsidy recipients). Because if they are distributed to boarding houses, they will not be on target," he said in a virtual press conference, Friday, June 4. then.

Regarding who is entitled to receive electricity subsidies from the government, said Rida, synchronization is still being carried out. Meanwhile, data synchronization is being carried out by PLN and the Ministry of Social Affairs through their Social Welfare Integrated Data (DTKS).

So, Rida continued, if there are currently people who are included in the list of recipients of electricity subsidies in PLN's customer data, later their names could be deleted by synchronizing data with the Ministry of Social Affairs DTKS.

"For the electricity sub-sector, Alhamdulillah, PLN already has data by name by address. So this DTKS is matched. For this purpose, it means that the separation of 450 VA households, PLN friends, conveyed when we checked that the matching was only completed at the end of June So we'll just have to wait," he explained.

According to Rida, the synchronized data will greatly influence the decision-making process, both at the government level and from the DPR.

"Because this concerns small, vulnerable and poor communities. This should then be discussed more," he said.