3 kg LPG-Price Hike Protested
Reported by Jhon Syah Putra Kaban | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
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.
