"As of this late August, there are more than one million vehicles registered for the Accurate Subsidy Program. From all of those vehicles, there has been a slight shift, where the percentage of vehicles that use Pertalite (a subsidized fuel type) is almost 70 percent, and the registered subsidized Solar (a subsidized fuel type) users' vehicles have increased to more than 30 percent," corporate secretary of PT Pertamina Patra Niaga, a commercial and trading sub-holding of PT Pertamina, Irto Ginting, informed here on Wednesday.
The registered vehicles that use Pertalite are still dominated by private vehicles. While for Solar, the ratio is relatively equal between private vehicles and public transportation vehicles.
The Accurate Subsidy Program is currently aiming to record vehicles that use Pertalite and Solar. Ginting explained that Pertamina needs to record the consumption of subsidized fuel so that its distribution can be monitored more closely and fraud or misuse in the field can be prevented.
Currently, Pertamina is focusing on registering and disseminating information, ensuring system readiness as well as field operations, while continuing to monitor the progress of the revision of Presidential Regulation Number 191 of 2014—the reference regulation for determining the distribution of subsidized fuel.
To increase the number of registered vehicles, Pertamina has continued to add direct registration booth points. Currently, there are more than 1,300 registration booths spread across the country, and their location can be checked via mypertamina.id/lokasi-pendaftaran-offline-bbm-subsidi-tepat.
People can also register their vehicles online through the subsiditepat.mypertamina.id page.
"Aside from encouraging people to register, we are also ensuring that the verification process runs maximally so that the process can be on time," Ginting said.
He reminded people who feel they are entitled to subsidized fuel to register their vehicles immediately. His party is currently testing the readiness of QR code verification at several points.
In the future, the Accurate Subsidy Program will be synergized with the regulation on the distribution of subsidized fuel determined by the government.
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