REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – Government has not yet taken a decision over the mechanism of fuel restriction as they seek the policy with minimum risk. Various alternatives should be studied to produce the best procedure.

“Government will find the alternative which has minimum risk, minimum access, and also easy to be implemented,” the member of the Downstream Oil and Gas Regulating Agency (BPH Migas) Committee, Ibrahim Hasyim, said on Tuesday.

The success of fuel control, he said, depended on three points, the power of government’s regulation, the role of economists, and the participation of people. Government should firmly choose the regulation, while the economists support the energy diversification program. People lack the socialization over energy in Indonesia, which now becomes the net importer of oil.

The Coordinating Minister of Economy, Hatta Rajasa, said government was still studying the options of fuel restriction and opened to alternative ideas. He also said firmly that fuel restriction would not be implemented on May 1 as the discourse rumored earlier. 

The revised state budget 2012 is designed with the increasing of subsidized fuel by 1,500 IDR per liter. Without the rising, government should secure the revised state budget and maintain the momentum of economic growth.

One measure to secure the revised state budget is anticipating the increasing of subsidy for fuel. The consumption of subsidized fuel can reach 40 million kiloliter this year.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asks the cabinet to secure revised state budget. The suspension forces government to find other options and solutions to maintain the economic growth and fiscal.

“We can reach (economic growth) 6.5 percent, then we can create job opportunity, eradicate the poverty, and others,” President said.

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