Despite pressures from all sides, Aetra Air Jakarta’s director of operations Lintong Hutasoit said that the Jakarta’s pipe water tariff for the urban poor is still below production cost. “Those are subsidy prices,” Lintong said in his office, last Thursday. Aetra produces clean water by buying water from the Jatiluhur Reservoir managed by Jasa Tirta II for a price of Rp275 per cubic meter. Every month, Aetra pays Rp7.