Letter: Car fuel pump failures

Taxi operators have launched continuous protests and criticism, and have accused Pertamina of supplying inferior quality gasoline to fuel stations causing fuel pump failures not only to taxi companies but also to owners of private cars, who have had to replace costly fuel pumps on a regular basis.

This is causing extreme financial losses not only to many taxi companies in  general but also to the public in particular.

My car recently went for the required 5,000-kilometer service and the garage  advised me not to refuel at Pertamina gas stations but Shell, Petrobras and Total for refueling. The garage has already
replaced new car fuel pumps for many of its customers.

By supplying contaminated gasoline, Pertamina is now cutting its own throat. The government is again turning a blind eye and allows Pertamina to  continue its  current policies of unloading bad quality gasoline to  unsuspecting customers.

Apparently, the Institute for Consumer Protection is sleeping and just vegetating and has done practically nothing to protect the public from hazardous products such as life-threatening gas canisters and bad gasoline

It is understandable that noone likes to go against a powerful company like Pertamina, especially since its management has already threatened to take protesting consumers to Court. The public is outraged and calls on the central government to act immediately and if necessary, replace the current Pertamina management as it has failed to supply superior quality gasoline to the public.

SBY, stop being a paralyzed spectator and act as the President.

Lynna van der Zee-Oehmke
Bogor, West Java