Export Gremlins

State oil and gas firm Pertamina exports subsidized fuel at market prices to East Timor each year. Customs suddenly put a stop to the practice.

June 20, 2012

For nearly three weeks, five trucks of state oil firm Pertamina heading for East Timor have been detained by the Kupang Customs and Excise office in East Nusa Tenggara. Customs officers have found that the subsidized Premium fuel was being sold under the name of Pertamax Regular, which is non-subsidized fuel. The officers detained the trucks because exporting subsidized fuel has been explicitly forbidden by presidential regulation No. 15, issued

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