Playing a Card to Stop the Leaks

The government is to introduce a special control card for the sale of subsidized kerosene.

January 9, 2007

WORRIED that she wouldnt get an equal share, Umi hurriedly joined the queue at an oil depot in Tangerang, Banten, on Thursday last week. She had just purchased a coupon for Rp11,500. With this ticket, the 36-year-old woman eventually succeeded in being able to obtain 5 liters of kerosene, in a jerry can that she had carried there from her home.

According to Noni, the owner of the oil depot at Gang Teladan in the Babakan subdistrict, this coupon sy

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