It is regrettable that the news of the increased electricity tariff last week became the fodder for hoax news websites. The rapid spread of the half-baked news had sent PLN (the state electricity company) and the Palace scrambling to deny it. The moral of the story is that the government had done a bad job disseminating an important policy that would affect many people.

The news of the increased electricity tariff went out of hand after PLN's CEO