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Hatta Radjasa: Increase in TDL's Revised

Banjarnegara (AFP) - Economic Affairs Coordinating Minister Hatta Radjasa said the government has been corrected so that the basic electricity tariff increase will not burden small businesses, micro, and medium.

"The increase began from the decrease or minus up to the highest was 18 percent. The highest and then only slightly," he said, Sunday afternoon

He said this after attending the activities of Ministers Greet that was held by the Village Society Movement Lovers Rural Development Nusantara (Nusantara euphoria) Rejasa Village, District Madukara, Banjarnegara regency, Central Java.

According to him, the government expects the influence of the MSME TDL does not lead to a close.

He said the government has estimated that the influence of the MSME electricity.

"If an average increase of 12 percent to 15 percent, with rates of electricity production was only five percent, then the effect on production is only zero point something," he said.

As mentioned about the facts on the ground there has been a collapse resulting from the increase MSME TDL, he said, these increases have not impacted on the SMEs.

"Just the electricity has not increased kok been affected," he said.

According to him, the government is thinking of MSMEs and really anticipating the impact of this increase in TDL.