JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia ensures that the price of subsidized 3 kg LPG gas will not rise even though the price of 12 kg gas has skyrocketed.
Not only ensuring the price, Bahlil also ensures that the supply of this melon elpiji is within the national minimum standard so that it will not experience shortages.
"Well, specifically for subsidized LPG, our stock is above the national minimum standard. And the price has not increased, flat. The same as the price of RON 90 gasoline and CN 48 solar price," Bahlil told the media, Monday, April 20.
He added, since the 3kg LPG was set in 2007, the government has never adjusted the price. Regarding the price increase in the field, this may have been done by the base distributor.
"What exists is played at distributors and bases. That's what I want to organize so that the subsidy that receives it is the right one," explained Bahlil.
Meanwhile, regarding the price increase on 12 kg and 5.5 kg Elpiji, the Chairman of the Golkar Party said that the price determination was entirely carried out by the business entity. On the other hand, the price set on non-subsidized elpiji depends on the price of elpiji in the international market.
"So we don't set the price, he adjusts it to the market price. That's it, Boss," said Bahlil.
Previously, PT Pertamina Patra Niaga raised the price of 12 kg non-subsidized Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to Rp228,000. For information, previously this product was priced at Rp192,000 per tube or an increase of Rp36,000.
Quoted from the official website of Pertamina Patra Niaga, the price is valid in a number of regions such as DKI Jakarta, Banten, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, Bali and West Nusa Tenggara.
The increase also occurred in non-subsidized LPG 5.5 kg from previously Rp90,000 to Rp107,000 per kg.
Pertamina Patra Niaga Corporate Secretary, Roberth Dumatubun explained, in fact, the determination of the non-subsidized LPG price is not much different from non-subsidized fuels which refer to market prices.
On the other hand, continued Roberth, this price determination has received the blessing of the government and the parties concerned.
"The adjustment is carried out in coordination with the Government and related stakeholders because the nature of NPSO commodities is economic," said Roberth in a statement to the media, Monday, April 20.
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