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| Tuesday, 31 August 2010 15:49 | |||||||
Page 1 of 2 JAKARTA: The plan of government adopted the use of fuel savings (fuel) beginning September this year subsidized potentially prolonged.Because, until now the government has not decided the formulation of criteria for saving the implementation of subsidized fuel consumption, including the target implementation. Director General of Oil and Gas Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Evita Herawati Legowo revealed until now the government continues to study the mechanism of the subsidized fuel saving. "We're not talking about it [practice]. We are working on, but yet to be decided. We are still studying how best. September in the morning, yes it's impossible, "he said today. Meanwhile, Minister of Energy Darwin Zahedy Saleh expects hikes fuel consumption (fuel) subsidized in 2011 reached 42.55 million kiloliters (kl), or increased 10.23% compared to the estimated consumption of 38.6 million kl in 2010. Estimated consumption of subsidized fuel hikes were presented in a working meeting with Commission VII of the House, yesterday. According to Darwin, in the 2011 State Budget was set volume of subsidized fuel as much as 36.77 million kl, as written in the Financial Memorandum of 2011. However, he said, stipulating that the assumption redesign (redesign) and implementation of policies subsidizing the use of subsidized fuel savings. www.tenderoffer.biz
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