Dahlan Iskan:
Electricity rates need not go up

June 23, 2010

IT was a taunting statement made by Dahlan Iskan, CEO of state-owned electricity company PLN to a member of the House of Representatives (DPR) who objected to any increase in electricity rates lest it would affect the poor. In fact, Dahlan told him that PLN would be willing to give poor people electricity free of charge. "Come on," he dared the parliamentarian, "let's see who is really on the side of the people." The DPR member actually took the jibe

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