Director for downstream oil and gas development at the energy and mineral resources ministry Mohammad Hidayat said construction of 17 units of the gas filling stations would be financed with fund from the 2014 state budget.
"The remaining 28 units would be built by state companies," Hidayat said here on Saturday.
He said 14 including four mobile refueling units (MRU) of the 17 units will be built in the Greater Jakarta areas, adding three other units including a MRU would be built in Semarang.
The 28 units to be built by state companies will include 12 units to be built by oil and gas company PT Pertamina and 16 units gas distributor PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN).
The units to be built by PGN will include nine permanent units and three MRU in the Greater Jakarta area, two permanent units in East Java and one permanent unit each in West Java and Riau.
Currently there are 31 gas fuel filling units (SPBG) including an MRU in operation in the country .
Among the 31 units, 17 were built by state companies and private companies including an MRU.
The 17 units include 13 units including the MRU in the Greater Jakarta area , one in Palembang and three in Surabaya.
The 14 units built with fund from the state budget include four units each in Palembang , Surabaya and the Greater Jakarta area and two units in Balikpapan.
Hidayat said a regulation is being drafted by the energy and mineral resources on assignment of state companies ministry to provide and distribute gas fuel.
PGN said it has set aside Rp260 billion to build 16 gas filling stations including five MRU this year.
Danny Praditya, the president director of PT Gagas Energi Indonesia, a subsidiary of PGN, said most of the gas filling stations would be built in Jakarta to serve Transjakarta buses.
"Other units include two units in Surabaya, two in Bogor, one in Sukabumi, and one in Pekanbaru," he said.
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