Anies Will Create A New Subsidized Fuel System To Be Right On Target

Presidential Candidate Anies Baswedan during the Anies Desak event in Ambon, Maluku, Monday (15/1/2024). (ANTARA/HO-Timnas AMIN)

Presidential candidate number 1, Anies Baswedan promised to prepare a new system so that subsidized fuel oil (BBM) is right on target.

Referring to information from the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu), Anies said 89 percent of diesel fuel subsidies are enjoyed by the business world.

The rest, only enjoyed by the community, which is even a small part of the people are less able to enjoy the Solar subsidy.

"This is also experienced in many places where the archipelago, of course Maluku experienced it. So, we saw that there were a lot of fuel subsidies that were not on target," Anies said at Anies' Desak event in Ambon, Maluku, Monday, January 15, which was confiscated by Antara.

Apart from Solar, he said, the pre-sesejahterable people who enjoy Pertalite type fuel subsidies are also only 20 percent; the rest are enjoyed by families, not pre-sesejahtera.

Therefore, he also wants fuel subsidies not to be accepted by the wealthy. Anies assessed that everything that costs below the market price is rare.

Do not let, he continued, people in need, such as fishermen, farmers, and pre-healthy families, fail to receive benefits from the fuel subsidy because of the current system. "We have to correct it. So, the controlling factor should not be left to the quota mechanism. We have to prepare a new system," said the former governor of DKI Jakarta.