Outside Government Control
The price of Pertamax and Pertamax Plus petrol is determined by Pertamina. This results in losses if the price of oil is above US$40 per barrel.
Tempo
March 8, 2005
AMIR worked out once again how much he has to spend now on petrol for his car. At the beginning, when Pertamax petrol almost doubled in price in mid-December last year, he didn’t really notice the difference. But gradually, filling up his 45-liter capacity tank started draining his wallet. Each month, Amir has to fill up his car’s petrol tank at least five times—that’s the equivalent of almost Rp1 million. “So now I
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