YLKI The Value Of Elimination Of Electric Customer Group 450 VA Is Not Fair: Better Limit On Electricity Usage Per Month

Chairman of YLKI, Tulus Abadi. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The decision of the Government and the Budget Agency (Banggar) of the DPR RI to abolish the electricity customer group 450 VA received attention from the Daily Chairperson of the Indonesian Consumer Foundation (YLKI) Tulus Abadi. According to Tulis, the decision was not the right and unfair steps.

"The policy to remove 450 VA clay customers into the 900 VA group is not appropriate. Due to the fact that there are still many groups that only require 450 VA, even less," Tulus told VOI, Wednesday, September 14.

According to him, if you want to limit subsidies and so that subsidies are right on target, PLN should limit the use of electricity, for example 60 kWh per month. If more than 60 kWh, you will be subject to non-subsidized tariffs. Because if the concept of electricity subsidies is logs based on the VA class, he continued, it seems unfair

"So YLKI does not agree with the elimination of the 450 VA customer group. But limit the use of kWh per month, for example a maximum of 60 kWh," added Tulus.

In addition, according to him, the excess oversupply of PLN electricity is unfair and will not be absorbed if it is charged to household consumers.

"Inversupply, PLN's electricity should be absorbed by the industrial and business sectors, not households," concluded Tulus.

Just so you know, previously the Chairman of the DPR RI Budget Agency, Said Abdullah, proposed the elimination of 450 Volt Ampere (VA) electric power for poor households and diverted to 900 VA power to overcome the excess electricity currently experienced by PLN.

"The poor are at least 900 VA, at least oversupply (excessive) is reduced and demand (demand) increases," said Said.

Said explained that the 35 Gigawatt (GW) power plant development program launched by the government had made PLN experience excess power of up to 6 GW.

Even next year, according to him, PLN will get an additional 1.4 GW which will make the total advantages to 7.4 GW. Then the additional new power will also enter by 7.5 GW in 2026.

Electricity supplies are increasing, he said, along with the government's program to encourage New Renewable Energy (EBT) which can make PLN excess of electricity up to 41 GW by 2030.

"You can imagine that 1 GW is because taking or paying has to pay 1 GW of IDR 3 trillion. Sweets also pay IDR 3 trillion, smiling IDR 3 trillion, IDR 3 trillion, I can't do anything about it, I just have to pay IDR 3 trillion," said Said.

"So in my opinion, why don't we make decisions today, in terms of the first policy, our legacy is together for the poor, vulnerable to poverty, which is no longer allowed for 450 VAs," he continued.