RI estimated Fuel and Electricity Subsidy-Free 2014

The government estimates that in 2014 Indonesia has been freed from the burden of budget subsidies for fuel and electricity.

This was conveyed by the Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Widjajono Partowidagdo when met at the office of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jakarta, Wednesday (11 / 1). "(Year) 2014 final, chances are good energy subsidies for fuel and electricity is not there anymore," he said.

Widjajono menggatakan, elimination of government subsidies will be conducted in stages through the conversion of fuel to the BBG and LGV which will began in earnest again in this 2012. "If in three years this subsidy could be worth Rp120 trillion for infrastructure development dihematkan tolerable. He said Indonesia needed money for development," he said.

With the conversion to CNG fuel and LGV, the Widjajono hope in 2014 all motor vehicles in Indonesia has been using CNG or LGV.