JAKARTA - Commission VII of the Indonesian House of Representatives and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) have agreed on a 3 kg LPG quota in the 2024 budget year RAPBN of 8.3 million metric tons (MT).
"The House of Representatives Commission VII agreed with the Director General of Oil and Gas of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and Pertamina that the 3 kg LPG volume quota in the 2024 RAPBN is 8.3 million MT," said Deputy Chairman of Commission VII DPR Dony Maryadi Oekon in a Hearing Meeting (RDP) quoted Tuesday, June 20.
RDP also agreed to limit the loading order (LO) for each company agent a maximum of 6 LO per day to support the distribution of 3 kg LPG in all corners of Indonesia.
Director General of Oil and Gas Tutuka Ariadji in his presentation revealed that the realization of the distribution of 3 kg LPG cylinders in 2022 reached 7.80 million MT. Meanwhile, in 2023 the 3 kg LPG quota of 8.00 million MT was included in reserves of 0.5 MT, where the realization of distribution until May 2023 reached 3.32 million MT or 41.6 percent.
At the work meeting of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources with Commission VII on June 5, 2023, Tutuka continued, it was stated that the 3 kg 2023 LPG volume outlook was 7.90 million MT and the agreed quota for submission in the discussion of the RAPBN for the 2024 fiscal year was 8.20 8.30 million MT.
The realization of the distribution of 3 kg LPG cylinders throughout 2018 to 2022 continues to increase. In 2018, the realization reached 6.53 million MT exceeding the quota set at 6.45 million MT. Furthermore, in 2019, the realization was 6.84 million MT from the quota of 6.98 million MT. For 2020, the realization of 7.14 million MT exceeds the quota for determining 7.00 million MT.
Tahun 2021, realisasi 7,46 juta MT dari kuota sebesar 7,50 juta MT. Sedangkan tahun 2022, realisasi mencapai 7,80 juta MT dari penetapan kuota 8,00 juta MT. Tahun 2023 hingga bulan Mei penyaluran mencapai 3,32 juta MT dari kuota yang ditetapkan sebesar 8,00 juta MT, papar Tutuka.
This condition is in contrast to the realization of Non PSO LPG distribution in the period 2019 to 2023 which continues to decline. The distribution of Non PSO LPG in 2019 was 0.66 million MT, in 2020 it was 0.62 million MT. 0.60 million MT (2021), 0.46 million MT (2022) and in 2023 until May 2023 it was 0.15 million MT.
During the meeting, the Director General of Oil and Gas also explained the data collection and matching of user data as well as the recording of 3 kg LPG transactions from the beginning of 2023 which was carried out with PT Pertamina with a time plan, namely the preparation and trial of the reliability of the MAP System (Merchant Apps MyPertamina Lite) which was held in January February 2023 and the socialization to all regions was carried out throughout March 2023.
Furthermore, the implementation of the island of Java Bali NTB is targeted for completion in June 2023 which includes 138 cities/regencies and the implementation of the island of Sumatra Kalimantan Sulawesi targeted for completion in July 2023 which includes 273 cities/regencies.
"The evaluation of this program will continue to be carried out continuously from March to December 2023," concluded Tutuka.
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