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Fuel demand skyrockets ahead of Idul Fitri
The surge comes as millions in the country embark on mudik (exodus).
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An attendant walks across a gas station that belongs to state-owned energy holding company Pertamina, in Kuningan, South Jakarta. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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ertamina Patra Niaga, the commercial arm of state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina, said that it saw a significant increase in fuel consumption ahead of the Idul Fitri holiday and the mudik (exodus) tradition that accompanies it.
Pertamina’s Pertamax Turbo unsubsidized gasoline with a research octane number of 98 saw the highest jump to 938 kiloliters (kl) per day, a 90.7 percent increase from a normal sales figure of 492 kl per day, as of Apr. 4.
Unsubsidized RON 92 gasoline also saw an increase of 24.8 percent to 15,890 kl per day in the same period.
Meanwhile, Pertamina Dex, an unsubsidized diesel fuel with cetane number (CN) of 53, and CN-51 Dexlite, saw 33.1 percent and 29.8 percent increases, respectively.
“The average daily fuel realization compared to normal sales [...] has increased. Travelers are advised to ensure that fuel conditions are sufficient to anticipate queues on the journey,” Pertamina Patra Niaga president director Riva Siahaan said in a statement issued on Sunday.
The company’s subsidized RON-90 gasoline Pertalite saw an 11 percent increase in consumption to 90,043 kl per day in the same period, while its subsidized diesel fuel saw a 9.3 percent rise to 47,683 kl per day.
Liquified petroleum gas (LPG), which is the country’s main cooking fuel, saw consumption increase by 4.4 percent to 29,733 tonnes per day during the same period.
