JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia dismissed issues and concerns about unhealthy competition between private fuel providers and Pertamina. Not without reason, previously Bahlil invited private gas stations to buy fuel from Pertamina as a solution to the recent fuel shortage.
Bahlil said the government had previously provided a quota of imports of fuel in 2025 of 110 percent from 2024. According to him, this number is quite large. On the same occasion, Bahlil also denied the assumption that the government was reluctant to give import permits for private gas station business actors.
"Imports for 2025 quota is given 110 percent compared to 2024. It is not true that we do not provide an import quota. But for the rest please collaborate with Pertamina," Bahlil explained, Tuesday, September 9.
The chairman of the Golkar Party emphasized that the government has been fair in providing fuel import quotas for the private sector. However, he emphasized that the direction for buying fuel from Pertamina by the private sector is a monopoly step.
"But that doesn't mean the totality of everything is quasi-ited by the state. I think it's fair, how come it's been given 110 percent," he explained.
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Bahlil emphasized that actually fuel and the energy sector are commodities related to the lives of many people, for that it should be controlled by the state, in this case Pertamina.
"This is not a matter of business competition, this is a matter of Article 33 of the lives of many people, it would be better to be controlled by the state," he said.
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