One Fuel Price Policy Indonesia, Higher Operational Costs Pertamina
In order to realize Indonesian President Joko Widodo's recently announced "One Fuel Price policy", state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina will need to invest about IDR 380 billion (approx. USD $29 million) in additional infrastructure. Last week Widodo announced, when visiting Papua in the far east of Indonesia, that fuel prices are to become the same across the entire archipelago. Due to weak infrastructure and poor distribution channels, prices of gasoline and diesel are about ten times as expensive in Papua compared to Java.