Grounded by Subsidies
Monday, December 18, 2017
The government’s errors in reigning in its soaring energy subsidies can no longer be tolerated. A plan to transfer the subsidy on the three-kilogram LPG ‘melon’ cooking gas cylinders to Welfare Cards issued by the social welfare ministry from January 2018 must not be put off.
What is President Joko Widodo waiting for? He is not left with many options. The government’s finances are in a perilous state. The budget for financing development
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