Tagging Subsidized Fuel

Miraz' hands adeptly slipped cable ties around the mouth of a black Toyota Avanza's gas tank. With small pliers, the Industri Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Inti) employee locked in a black band, diameter 70 millimeters. Then he stuck a small chip into the groove above the tank's mouth.

After seven minutes, Miraz had fixed the band that functions as a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. "The chip should be attached above so as not to get sprinkled with gasoline," he said while on tag repair duty at a gas station in Mampang, South Jakarta, on Wednesday last week.

August 12, 2014