Banners announcing new prices for Premium gasoline and automotive diesel oil were neatly folded in a staff room at a public gas station (SPBU) in Yogyakarta on April 30. The stations management had received the placards from Pertamina several days earlier, but they still were not on display. We wont risk putting up the notices, said Dita, a supervisor.

At another SPBU in town, the posters remained in a warehouse. Jaldan, who oversees the SPBU in t