Dark and Difficult Labyrinth

The government and the DPR agreed to reduce the burden of fuel subsidies—a real time bomb for the government of president-elect Yudhoyono.

October 5, 2004

THE whole matter of fuel (BBM) subsidies has now begun somewhat akin to a labyrinth twisting, full of traps and often with only one way out. The beginning of this problem was the extraordinarily enormous increase in fuel (BBM) subsidies, more than four times what was originally budgeted. The government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri and the former House of Representatives (1999-2004) agreed to reduce the total of subsidies from the origin

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