Fuel
Back to the `60s
Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Diesel fuel and kerosene are scarce in many areas, while hoarding and smuggling of the commodities are increasingly rampant. Why doesn't the government simply announce the fuel hike today?
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Mrs. Sunanto didn't realize that there would be a repeat of what happened 30 years ago. As each dawn breaks, the wife of an employee at Cirebon's municipality office has to comb her area looking for kerosene vendors. Sometimes she has to walk 10 kilometers to get the fuel that has suddenly becomes scarce. Sometimes the middle-aged woman has to stand in line for 4-5 hours for the 2-5 liters of kerosene allocated per person at a price of Rp1,200 a
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