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Trade Minister: Employers Must Engineered Numeracy

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said, employers should carefully calculate the direct and indirect impact of rising electricity basic tariff (TDL).

Met after attending a meeting macro-economic development led by Vice President Boediono in Jakarta on Friday (07/09/2010), Mari said, "If the average increase in TDL ten percent, and electricity costs for the production of just five percent yes computed approximately how rising prices of goods produced. "

According to Minister of Trade, the calculation of the impact of TDL against price increases the production of goods must be carefully calculated so as not to cause a huge economic impact for the community.

Let's say, an increase in TDL will provide the impact that price increases vary for each industry sector. "So, should be carefully calculated how much the price increases by ten percent increase in TDL that," he said.

Meanwhile on the same occasion BPS Chief Rusman Heriawan said the direct impact of the increase in TDL for entrepreneurs around 0.22 percent. "The indirect impact, will be seen whether there is increase in the price of goods or services by entrepreneurs," he said.

Rusman added that the perpetrators should be proportional business and industry in raising prices of goods and services, in order to increase the impact of TDL did not provide extensive and broad impact everywhere.