Open Access for Pipeline Gas Industry on Competition Law in Indonesia

摘要

That the gas trading practice through this pipeline is still monopolized by a business actor or business entity. With the monopoly nature of this gas pipeline is detrimental to the owner of the gas where the take it of leave it principle emerges, inevitably it must be sold to the owner of the pipe at the price desired by the pipe owner, so that the gas price is detrimental to consumers. That there is power to monopolize prices so that the price of gas in consumers is very expensiveThe emergence of traders due to slow investment in pipelines and makes gas prices more expensive for non-pipeline consumers. Temporary gas cannot be stockpiled for long so that it is immediately discharged in the lifting must be immediately transmitted to consumers by LNG, CNG or LPG. That the concept of natural monopoly is inappropriate to be used in Indonesia to achieve economic growth and fair business competition.