Benahi Dulu Pengelolaan Listrik Sebelum Naikkan Tarif

AppId is over the quota

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Rencana kenaikan tarif tenaga listrik (TTL) yang diumumkan Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono kurang mendapat sambutan. Sebab, pengelolaan listrik dinilai masih belum memuaskan konsumen.

Pengamat energi Kurtubi berpendapat agar Pemerintah terlebih dahulu membenahi pengelolaan dalam produksi listrik sebelum menaikkan TTL.

"Dibenahi dulu pengelolaan listrik ini sebelum sampai pada kesimpulan menaikkan harga," sebut Kurtubi kepada Kompas.com, akhir pekan lalu.

Kurtubi memahami bahwa penyesuaian TTL dilakukan untuk menurunkan subsidi listrik yang mencapai Rp 80,9 triliun pada RAPBN 2013. Namun, menurut dia, penurunan angka subsidi tersebut tidak harus dengan menaikkan tarif listrik. Karena, ia berpendapat, subsidi listrik yang membengkak terutama disebabkan terlalu banyaknya penggunaan bahan bakar minyak (BBM).

Oleh sebab itu, Kurtubi pun menyarankan perlunya pembenahan dalam produksi listrik, yakni dengan mengurangi konsumsi BBM dan menambah penggunaan batu bara dan gas.

"Mustinya PLN itu didorong untuk menggunakan batu bara dan gas yang lebih banyak agar biaya pokok listrik lebih murah," tegas Kurtubi.

Tetapi, lanjut dia, tidak hanya internal PLN saja yang dibenahi. Secara keseluruhan, Pemerintah juga harus membuat kebijakan agar batu bara banyak dipakai dalam menghasilkan listrik nasional.

"Tidak untuk diekspor secara besar-besaran," tambahnya.

Kurtubi sangat mendukung penggunaan batu bara dan gas lantaran keduanya bisa menghasilkan biaya produksi listrik yang rendah ketimbang BBM. Biaya pokok produksi listrik dengan batu bara Rp 600 per kWh, dengan gas Rp 500 per kWh, dan dengan panas bumi Rp 1.200 per kWh. Sementara dengan BBM Rp 3.500 per kWh.

"Mustinya PLN itu didorong dengan sediakan gas dan batu bara yang cukup. Jadi tanpa menaikkan harga," tandas Kurtubi.

Sebelumnya, Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono menyebutkan Pemerintah berencana melakukan penyesuaian TTL pada tahun 2013 pada pembacaan Nota Keuangan di DPR, Jakarta, Kamis (16/7/2012) lalu. Tarif rencananya akan disesuaikan secara kuartalan.

Kemendag Form Of The Orderly Administration

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Ministry of trade (Kemendag) created The Orderly Administration as an effort hasten the eradication of corruption in the Ministry of environment. Early ideas form the WTA is the Inpres No. 5 of 2004 about Accelerating the fight against corruption.

On Friday (17/8/2012) yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Gita Wirjawan submit Charter Award to work unit that WTA top achievers in terms of orderly administration. The Unit's Directorate of Standardization and consumer protection.

"I Kemendag Echelon Units are eligible to receive the trophy WTA 2012 is the Directorate of Standardization and consumer protection," call the Gita in a press release issued Friday.

The formation of the WTA in Kemendag environment begins with the issuance of Regulations the Secretary of Commerce No. 30 in 2012 about The Orderly administration of the Ministry of environment of the trade.

Permendag is then followed by a decision of the Minister of trade of INDONESIA No. 491 2012 about the determination and assessment of Technical Instructions The Orderly administration of the Ministry of environment of the trade.

After that, the Ministry was doing to the entire WTA internalization work unit. Infrastructure and understanding ever built. Then General Inspectorate assesses WTA Kemendag.

Those who do assessment officials in WTA is the whole Environmental Inspectorate-General and the Secretariat General of the Kemendag, the Ministry of administrative and Bureaucratic State apparatus Reform (PAN and RB), as well as Financial and Development Supervision Agency (BPKP).

Assessment parameters include five components: WTA, namely the implementation of performance; financial management and other State-owned; management of HUMAN RESOURCES; the results of supervision; and implementation of accelerated eradication of corruption.

Related parameter, Kemendag will continue to do development. For 2012, with the help of BPKP, Kemendag has added parameters that contain elements of assessment of internal control Systems (SPIP) Government and the integrity of the Zone which is a program of the Ministry of the PAN and RB.

"Given the work unit in the Ministry of environment has its own uniqueness, Trading the appraisal system by observing the number of clusters, which are managed HUMAN RESOURCES budget, resulting in a PNBP (not a State Income Tax), and public service," added Inspector General Eddy Kemendag Suseno.

Judgments made against 24 units in the neighborhood Kemendag Echelon II in choosing the unit to get the best trophy WTA 2012. Ditjen SPK scored the highest cumulative score.

Trade Ministers also claims to be quite proud that most of Echelon units, i.e. as much as 18 II work unit, has been able to grab the value of B with a score greater than 70.

Gita reveals, the unit get the best value with the WTA will be proposed to the Ministry of PAN and RB as a potential participant Zone Integrity (ZI) and Area Clean and serve the Bureaucracy (WBBM) 2012 from Kemendag.

The winner of the competition and WBBM plan ZI will be announced on December 9, 2012.

Strengthened over the Yen, the Euro weakened against the US Dollar

NEW YORK, KOMPAS.com -euro exchange rate strengthened against the yen but weakened the u.s. dollar on Friday (17/8/2012) New York time. The Euro strengthened amid optimism that Europe's leaders are getting closer to an agreement to resolve the debt crisis in the euro zone.

The Euro rose 0.1 percent to 98,13 yen after earlier touching 98,41 which is the highest rate since July 6, 2012. However, the euro weakened 0.2 percent to 1,2334 US dollars. The Yen weakened to the fifth day of its own against the US dollar which dropped 0.3 percent to 79,56.

Rise of the euro for yen came after Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel supports plan European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to lower the cost of loan in the indebted countries.

On 2 August, Draghi said, the central bank is likely to buy government bonds in order to lower the costs of loans in a number of countries, such as Italy and Spain, with a number of requirements.

On the other hand, the euro weakened the u.s. dollar along with bonds that grow most expensive Germany in two months than U.S. debt equals.

"(The Euro was supported by the suggestion that the ECB) will buy bonds as soon as possible after any who come to the European Financial Stability Fund to ask for help," call Kit Juckes, head of foreign exchange Research Societe General SA, in a telephone interview with Bloomberg.