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.