The food business operators began to protest the price hike on the 3-kilogram liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Moreover, its existence is also rare in the market. As a result, peddlers had to use 12-kilogram LPG at a higher price in order to survive doing business.

If I don't raise the food price, I will go bankrupt

As experienced by Iwan (56), a food stall owner in Gambir stated the gas price is rising Rp 1,000 at the retail level. As a result, he had to raise the food price to cover the losses.

"If I don't raise the food price, I will go bankrupt," he lamented, Monday (12/1).

Responding on this matter, Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' T Purnama suggested the lower-income people who used the 3-kilogram LPG to stay in the flat that has been equipped gas pipeline.

"The lower-income people who cannot afford to buy 3-kilogram LPG will be encouraged to the flat. We are now preparing the flat equipped with a gas pipe. So, they are no longer dependent on LPG," he uttered.