Sufficient stock of subsidized fuel, Public Must Not Panic

Indobusiness - PT Pertamina (Persero) urged people to not make the purchase of fuel oil (BBM) excessively subsidized plan related to hike policy rates. Today, the stock of fuel which is managed by Pertamina is more than enough, at about 22 days to about 20 days and the premium for diesel.

Vice president for corporate communications Mundakir Ali said, Pertamina has been preparing the availability of sufficient fuel to accommodate the possibility of a jump in consumption ahead of the official announcement of fuel price adjustment policies subsidized by the government.

"We assure the availability of stocks of fuel, particularly gasoline and diesel, are very pretty for the people. Besides stocks in a safe position, Pertamina has set a daily thruput increased over 10 percent of the average daily thruput normal," Ali said in a press release in Jakarta , Thursday (06/19/2013).

He said Pertamina also issued a policy in order to fuel terminals and retail outlets operate longer than the normal days. Even if necessary, up to 24 hours of operation to ensure community needs are met.

According to Ali, by monitoring the realization of premium fuel distribution in the last two weeks, an increase in the daily consumption of subsidized fuel, especially on Tuesday (06/18/2013), which is a premium of 80,000 kiloliters (KL) per day to 90,000 KL per day (12 , 5 per cent) and 43,000 KL of diesel per day to 48,000 KL per day (11.6 percent).

"In the last two weeks, the actual distribution of premium averaged about 88,000 KL of diesel and about 48,000 KL.'s Still as predicted," he added.