Vice President, H.E. Mr. Yusuf Kalla inaugurated the program to convert kerosene use to LPG at Kebon Pala village, East Jakarta, Tuesday (8/5) afternoon. The Government targeted around 20 millions head of family of low income people to follow this program in the next 3 years. The targeted family will be provided freely with stove and 3 kg capacity of LPG tube.
This program is part of the program to reduce national dependency on petroleum product especially kerosene as well as to improve energy efficiency in household sector. The inauguration was also attended by Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Minister of Industry, Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Minister for Woman Empowerment, the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Director General of Oil and Gas, Head of BPMIGAS and Head of BPH MIGAS, President Director of Pertamina and other dignitaries. The VP Yusuf Kalla gave the stove and tube to 10 respresentatives of local people. During the inauguration, the use of the stove and LPG tube was also demonstrated. According to Mr. Yusuf Kalla, the conversion can save people’s expenditure and reduce subsidy and LPG is cleaner than kerosene. Based on research, the use of 1 litre of kerosene is equivalent to 0.4 kg of LPG and thus local people can save around Rp. 1700 when compared to kerosene. The use of LPG can also save around Rp. 25000 per month per head of family. According to Mr. Yusuf Kalla, if all kerosene can be replaced by LPG, the subsidy of Rp. 30 trillion per year is no more needed.
