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View all search resultsRI raises fuel import quota for retailers after 2025 supply snarl
Following last year’s fuel snafu, the government has decided to increase this year's import quotas for private retailers, but has not publicly announced by how much.
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Attendants wait for customers at a Shell gas station in an unknown location on Sept. 19, 2025, as a gasoline shortage sweeps private retailers, in part due to a corruption scandal linked to state-owned energy giant Pertamina. (Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
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he Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has increased the fuel import quota for private retailers for 2026 after the supply shortage that persisted for several months in the latter half of last year.
Private gas station operators such as PT Shell Indonesia, PT Vivo Energy Indonesia (Vivo) and PT Aneka Petroindo Raya (BP-AKR), a joint venture between Indonesia’s PT AKR Corporindo and the United Kingdom’s BP, faced a supply shortage that began in August and then eventually ran out of fuel after exhausting their 2025 import quotas.
Oil and Gas Director General Laode Sulaeman attributed strong demand as the reason for the decision but did not disclose any details, only noting that the amount of the increase was “similar” to the 10 percent imposed last year.
“[Import permits] have been granted,” Laode said on Monday, as quoted by Bisnis.com, expressing hope that as a result, supplies at private gas stations would remain stable to meet public demand.
He added that fuel had been delivered without interruption since the new year began, so the supply at private retailers “should already be normal, since we never halted [distribution]”.
Earlier on Friday, energy minister Bahlil Lahadalia said the 2026 import quotas for private operators were calculated in line with prevailing regulations, though he did not provide an actual figure.
The ministry had yet to determine import quotas for “noncompliant” private retailers, Bahlil said.
