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2008/8/5, M Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Indonesia May Scrap Price Approval Rule on Gas Negara (Update1) > (Adds official's comments in fourth paragraph.) > By Leony Aurora > Aug. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesia's energy ministry may scrap a rule > requiring PT Perusahaan Gas Negara, the country's largest distributor of the > fuel, to seek its approval on pricing agreements with factories and > utilities. > The government may also decide not to set a maximum price for the fuel, > Evita Legowo, director general of oil and gas at the ministry, said by > telephone today. The ministry plans to issue a regulation by the end of > October, she said. > The ministry's plan marks a reversal from last year when the government > challenged Gas Negara's authority to increase prices by 10 percent to pass > on higher fuel costs to consumers. The government is now trying to > ``smoothen'' the way for gas supply deals to encourage more use of the fuel > as crude oil soared to records this year. > ``The prices should be determined by a business-to-business agreement,'' > Evita said. > The gas distributor climbed 2.4 percent to 2,175 rupiah at 2:48 p.m. in > Jakarta today, outperforming a 3 percent decline in the benchmark index. > Gas Negara and Luluk Sumiarso, formerly the director general of oil and gas > at the ministry, previously agreed on a maximum price of $11.4 per million > British thermal units. Evita replaced Luluk on July 18. > The Jakarta-based gas distributor, 55 percent owned by the government, was > granted permission to raise prices by 9.7 percent to an average of $5.5 per > million British thermal units on Aug. 1 last year. The increase was its > third in two years. > > >