Susilo aggress to lower gas prices

Minister of Mines and Energy Susilo B. Yudhoyono said on Tuesday that he basically agreed to the calls to lower domestic gas price in a bid to help revive the country's ailing real sector.

But Susilo was quoted as saying by the Astaga online that the decision for the domestic gas price was in the hands of the Minister of Finance.

The Minister of Agriculture had been reportedly to have demanded the government to lower gas price by 50 percent to help fertilizer firms to survive the ongoing economic crisis.

Susilo declined to say how low should the gas price be reduced.(*)