Indonesia News Briefing June 2015
June 26, 2015
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Indonesia Energy Subsidy Briefing June 2015 - English (PDF - 206 KB)
Briefing Subsidi Energi Indonesia June 2015 - Bahasa (PDF - 137 KB)
As part of its work on energy policy and sustainable development in Indonesia, the Global Subsidies Initiative publishes a regular briefing on issues related to energy subsidies.
The June 2015 edition includes:
- The Indonesian economy has shown resilience after a number of major changes in its fuel subsidy policies.
- Narrowing the price between subsidized fuel and the non-subsidized fuel has had a positive impact on the pattern of fuel consumption in Indonesia.
- Concerns continue to surround the possibility that Indonesia's new semi-automatic fuel pricing system could be compromised by too much political intervention.
- According to PT Pertamina, the new retail price of gasoline RON 88 determined by the government were IDR 200-750 below the output of price formula calculation.