BERA: Prices of most consumer goods can be
maintained as the government has increased fuel subsidies and enforced laws to
stop profiteering, said Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister
Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
While
other countries had increased petrol prices, Ismail said Malaysia had added the
subsidy for RON 95 to maintain its price at RM1.90 per litre.
He said
the government had never imposed a sales tax on RON 95, which was estimated to
be 58 sen per litre.
"No
other country can maintain fuel prices like us, including China and Indonesia.
The latter's decision to increase petrol prices recently even resulted in
riots," he said after the simultaneous opening of Bera Umno branches'
meetings by party supreme council member Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam here
yesterday.
Ismail
said the price of RON 95 petrol was cheaper than that in Thailand (RM4.71), the
Philippines (RM5.85), Singapore (RM5.48) and Indonesia (RM3.08).
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