{"id":485931,"date":"2026-06-10T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/485931\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:43:25","slug":"indonesia-raises-price-of-widely-used-fuel-by-32-adds-to-cost-of-living-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/485931\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia raises price of widely used fuel by 32%, adds to cost-of-living concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DBS Bank senior economist Radhika Rao said the affected fuels accounted for about 7 per cent of domestic fuel sales and 7.5 per cent of energy consumption in the transportation sector in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>She said alongside monetary policy adjustments, fiscal policy also needed to adopt a defensive stance to support the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Masgal Carta, a worker in Bandung, West Java, said the sudden price rise was going to further squeeze his finances. &#8220;Honestly, I was quite shocked this morning when I found out that fuel prices had gone up, because my motorbike also uses Pertamax,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My income has stayed the same, prices of basic goods have already started to rise, and now fuel, our main means of transportation to get to work, has increased suddenly,&#8221; Masgal told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The price of the subsidised 90-octane fuel known as Pertalite was unchanged, Pertamina said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DBS Bank senior economist Radhika Rao said the affected fuels accounted for about 7 per cent of domestic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,176002,85,1445,46],"class_list":["post-485931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-fuel-price","tag-il","tag-indonesia","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}