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From: Sunny <am...@tele2.se> >To: undisclosed-recipi...@yahoo.com >Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 4:20 AM >Subject: [proletar] Indonesian Power Prices to Rise 10% to Plug Budget Deficit > > > >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/indonesian-power-prices-to-rise-10-to-plug-budget-deficit/496298?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jgnewsletter >Indonesian Power Prices to Rise 10% to Plug Budget Deficit >Ririn Radiawati Kusuma | February 07, 2012 > >Power prices will surge by an average of 10 percent from April under a >government plan to ease the budget deficit, a deputy minister said on Monday. > >Widjajono Partowidagdo, the deputy energy minister, said the proposed increase >could save up to Rp 8.9 trillion ($997 million) in electricity subsidy costs. > >Energy subsidies for the government soared by 61 percent to Rp 65.8 trillion >last year from the Rp 40.7 trillion set in the initial budget. > >The soaring bill was due to increasing costs of imported oil to fuel some of >the power plants of state utility company Perusahaan Listrik Negara. > >This year, the government plans to limit the electricity subsidy bill to Rp 45 >trillion, which involves an average 10 percent increase for the basic >electricity tariff. Without it, the bill would soar to Rp 53.9 trillion. > >Widjajono said such an increase “would not pose problems for industries.” > >The government has prepared some options that would shield from tariff >increases low-income consumers who use less then a designated amount of power. > >The plan still needs approval by the House of Representatives. > >The price rise is set to put further pressure on household budgets, with fuel >prices set to rise either through a reduction in the subsidy or a forced move >to unsubsidized gas. > >Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said on Thursday that the price of global >crude oil exceeding the state’s 2012 budget assumption. This explained the >need to push ahead with the tariff increase, he said. > >According to Energy Ministry data, the Indonesian Crude Price, the nation’s >benchmark for crude oil, stood at $115.91 per barrel at the end of January. It >was above the $90 target set in the 2012 budget, and up 4.6 percent from >$110.70 in December. > >Electricity, water, gas, fuel and housing costs contribute to 21 percent of >the consumer price index. Prices in January rose 3.65 percent from a year >earlier, the lowest inflation in 22 months. > >Prakriti Sofat, a Singapore-based economist from Barclays Capital, said last >week that the 10 percent electricity tariff increase would add 0.3 percentage >points to the inflation rate. > >Inflation eased for the fifth month in a row in January, due to milder >increases in food prices, the Central Statistic Agency reported on Wednesday. > >Sofat said that, along with robust domestic demand and gradual rises in food, >health and education costs, the electricity tariff increase would cause >inflation to hit 5.3 percent by December. > >Additional reporting by Dion Bisara > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: proletar-dig...@yahoogroups.com proletar-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: proletar-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
