HARRY Azhar Azis was very angry when he heard that the government wanted to increase the basic electricity tariff by 15 percent. This Chairman of the Budgetary Committee at the House of Representatives (DPR) was amazed because the government had already asked for additional electricity subsidies of Rp16.7 trillion in the Revised 2010 State Budget (APBN) Draft Bill that was presented two weeks ago.

In the 2010 APBN State Decree, the state-owned e