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Jakarta, Spasi-id.com - rewards the fuel subsidies the government announced Saturday (3 / 9) afternoon, many people responded to that policy. One of them is the Director of Lokaturu Foundation Iwan Nurdin.
According to Iwan Nurdin, rising oil prices are Solar, Pertalite, and Pertamax will impact rural communities, especially farmers, plantations and fishermen. In its origin, the increase will follow the price of fertilizer at the rate of farmers and gardening.
Nurdin called, the price of fertilizer at a farm farmer who didn't get the ration of subsidy fertilizer had crawled up in a few months before the fuel prices were raised.
"and it's going to get even worse. In fact, the price of their commodities is still under pressure," Iwan said in his statement, Saturday (3 / 9 / 2022).
In addition, the increase in BBM prices will also bring impact to the cost of the plantation farmers who rely only on food supply from beyond their borders.
He explained, a similar situation would occur to a society whose livelihood is a fisherman. Because fuel prices don't matter to their fish prices because people are going to reduce fish consumption if they go up.
According to him, a decision to increase the price of BBM should result in giving other subsidies, such as adding allocation of subsidies of fertilizer, seeds, and support of subsidies of profitable crops.
"In addition, tax deduction and retribution to farmers and fishermen must also be done,
