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Indonesia Energy Subsidies Briefing September 2014 - English (PDF - 93 KB)
Briefing Subsidi Energi Indonesia September 2014 - Indonesia Bahasa (PDF - 97 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 September 2014 edition includes:

• President Yudhoyono turns down proposal to share fuel price increase with incoming Widodo administration.
   
• The proposed State Budget 2015 would increase expenditure on fuel subsidies to IDR 291.1 trillion (US$ 25 billion) and electricity subsidies to IDR 72.4 trillion (US$ 6.2 billion). This means 26.4 per cent of the 2015 budget would be allocated to energy subsidies.
   
• Attempts to reduce fuel consumption in August 2014 resulted in long queues and panic buying as rumours of fuel shortages spread. The measures were therefore withdrawn at the end of August. Although the consumption of subsidized fuel did reduce to some extent, the impact was too small to make a significant contribution towards Indonesia's quota for subsidized fuel consumption in 2014.