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Smart Card Will Be Efficient If Use For Long Terms

(Jakarta) – Fuels (BBM) Control Card or Smart Card that will be launch by the government June this years at the latest is consider will be efficient if the smart card use for long terms. But if those things only for a short terms political decisions, then this policy will not efficient. These thing reveal by the Center for Information and Development Studies (CIDES) economic scientific, Lutfi Alkatiri, when contacted by Indonesianow in Jakarta, Thursday (14/2).

“If this policy will be long terms policy for the next ten until 20 years because if it is only for fulfill the promise not to increase the Fuels (BBM) price until 2009, so this policy will only a waste,” Lutfi explained.

Lutfi declare that basically the government policy is good, but according to him, the government doesn’t have ability to manage this smart card policy. “From the foulness program of kerosene conversion into gas, I think the government doesn’t have capability to this kind of policy. This could be making the same foulness that had already existed,” he said.

According to Lutfi, the user target of smart card that determine by the government was also not hit the target because what have been the target of this program was beside the car users. “In my opinion it will be effective if the government increase the BBM price gradually as much as 10-15 percent per Month. Yeah but what can we do, the fact is government was also in the difficult position between retake their own words with increasing the BBM price or wasting budget for smart card program”

If the smart card policies being operationally, Lutfi add, so there will be a little fluctuating in the societies. “As usual, at the first they will be little bit protested but in the end they will live with it as usual,” He revealed it. (Nurseffi/trans.Devi)

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