Use of unleaded gasoline to be popularized in Bali

The government will launch a campaign early next month for the use of unleaded gasoline on the island of Bali, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources said Tuesday.

The launching of the program will be made during the three-day oil and mining conference to be opened on the tourist island on February 1, Purnomo told reporters.

Earlier reports said that the government had delayed to 2005 its plan to eliminate the use of leaded gasoline as part of its Blue Sky policy. It had initially planned to ban the use of leaded gasoline in 2004.

In 2001, the government launched a limited campaign for the use of unleaded gasoline in Jakarta City and Cirebon, West Java. (godang)