REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BATAM -- The state-owned gas firm, PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN), plans to attract ten thousand additional household customers across Indonesia this year.
PGN currently serves nearly ninety thousand household customers. The figure is expected to increase after the construction of gas distribution networks, PGN Corporate Director Jobi Triananda Hasjim stated here on Wednesday.
He emphasized that PGN is focusing its household gas services on new housing complexes where it finds it easier to build the underground infrastructure.
"The roads in old housing complexes have been asphalted. To distribute gas to old housing complexes, we have to dismantle the ceramic tiles," he added.
After all, PGN will continue to serve its household customers in old housing complexes, which currently have gas distribution networks, he remarked.
He reported that the household demand for PGN gas is very high because it is sold at a lower price as compared to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
The gas price offered by PGN is Rp3.5 thousand per cu. meter, which is equal to Rp2.9 thousand a kg or Rp8.7 thousand per 3 kg, or far lower than that of LPG in the 3-kg cylinder category, he pointed out.
The price of household gas is set by the government in the same way as the price of gas fuel for transportation, he explained.
He refused to comment on whether PGN will raise the price of its gas sold to households following a rise in the price of LPG.
"The price of gas was last raised almost four to five years ago," he stated.
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