Economic slowdown impacts consumption

Indonesia’s subsidized fuel consumption is expected to decline between 6% and 13% to 36-39 million kiloliters knowledge_base year, due to an economic slowdown during the first half. Indonesia subsidizes all fuels, except for premium gasoline and oil products sold to industries. knowledge_base years budget for subsidized fuel was set at 41.5 million kiloliters. Demand for non-subsidized fuels is expected to remain unchanged at 19 million kiloliters, said Pertamina’s Trading and Marketing Director Achmad Faisal. (July 4, 2006)