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Indonesia Struggles to End Fuel Subsidies - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • aggressive subsidies,
  • skyrocket
  • burning a hole in the budget
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  • $23 billion in 2013
  • $20 billion last year
  • $32 billion
  • 20 percent of the 2013 budget
  • fuel subsidies annually than it does on social programs and capital expenditures combined
  • revive a cash compensation program for poor families to cushion the blow
  • all other prices go up
  • two-tier gasoline pricing
  • public transportation vehicles would continue to pay 4,500 rupiah per liter
  • private vehicle and commercial vehicles like delivery trucks and company cars would pay 6,000 rupiah, a 33 percent increase.
  • 6,500 rupiah per liter.
  • the country had the lowest fuel prices of any net oil-consuming nation in the world
  • Savings from eliminating or reducing a fuel subsidy could go to crucial public social programs including health care, as well as much-needed infrastructure investment, according to analysts
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  • About 29 million Indonesians live below the country’s national poverty line — 250,000 rupiah per person per month or 1,250,000 rupiah per family per month, and in urban areas, 350,000 rupiah per person per month or 1,500,000 rupiah per family per month. A further 70 million, categorized as near poor, live just above that line. Didik Rachbini, a prominent economist and member of Mr. Yudhoyono’s National Economic Council, which comprises economists and leading businessmen and advises the president on economic policy, said the government had a longstanding fear that increasing the price of fuel would push tens of millions of near-poor Indonesians below the poverty line.
  • country’s rich benefit from them far more than its poor do
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    Indonesia Fuel Prices
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