Detail Prospective Fuel Price Hike and the Poor (PostScript, Vol.1 No.8 December 2004) Bibliografi Author: Mustasya, Tata Topik: Fuel Price Bahasa: (EN )    Edisi: Des 2004     Penerbit: The Habibie Center      Jenis: Article - diterbitkan di jurnal ilmiah nasional Fulltext: PostScript15.pdf (239.49KB; 0 download) Abstract The government plans to raise fuel price by around 40 percent in the next budget year.' The plan is not surprising since international oil price has exceeded US$ 50, way higher than its assumption in the budget plan 2004 at US$ 22. As an impact, the government has to spend around Rp. 70 trillion this year for subsidizing relatively low domestic price. On the one hand, the most important objective of fuel subsidy is to enable the poor to fulfill their basic needs, including some goods and services whose prices are closely related to the fuel price. On the other hand, there is also an indication that 50 percent of the subsidy is enjoyed by the 20 percent richest-instead of the poor-as they consume more fuel than the poor. Meanwhile, the poorest only enjoy 6 percent of the subsidy.' If the government raises the amount of the subsidy and does not hike the fuel price, it will reduce allocation for some substantive items for around 37.3 million poor like basic education, primary health, rural infrastructure development, and food security fund. Reducing the subsidy is also not easy to be implemented as the poor and the near poor are more sensitive to negative impacts affected by the hike. Hence, interests of the poor become a crucial point in fuel price hike issue. Do the price hike and its compensation create benefits or losses for the poor? Aside of the economic issues, it is also interesting to see the political impact of the price hike. In fact, the poor-regardless their big numbershave lesser political power to influence government policy than the political elite, who might manipulate public dissatisfaction on the price hike to improve their political bargaining vis a vis the government. Furthermore, the price hike could create new political constellation due to the decreasing popularity of the present government. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Lihat Sejarah Pengadaan  Konversi Metadata   Kembali

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