At three petrol stations in Denpasar, staff have started filling tanks from pre-filled jerry cans: 4 litres for a motorbike and 20 litres for a car.
State-owned oil and gas company Pertamina hopes this will let it serve people faster. In south Bali, people have been waiting hours for fuel for a second week.
The scheme was trialled on 15 October. Designated staff pour the petrol from the cans through a funnel. The company has not stated the price or the limit per customer. Pertamina will first see whether the scheme helps before deciding whether to roll it out to other petrol stations.
From 15 to 17 October, government offices and state-owned companies across Bali are working from home, and schools and universities, both public and private, have switched to remote learning. As recently as Tuesday, the Governor of Bali had rejected this measure, but he introduced it after meeting Pertamina's management on 14 October.
In the south of the island, 50 petrol stations are now open around the clock, and another 16 are due to join them. Station staff complained to the governor about exhaustion, so now one or two soldiers at each station help fill up motorbikes and cars at night. The army has also been deployed to the stations to keep order at the pumps.
Bali police have detained five people suspected of buying up petrol at filling stations and reselling it in bottles. If the queues don't shorten, the authorities and Pertamina are discussing a purchase limit, while the police are proposing to let cars into petrol stations based on odd and even licence plate numbers. No decision has yet been made on either option.
From 14 to 17 October, Pertamina is due to deliver 57.9 million litres of fuel to Bali. Denpasar and the surrounding area need about a million litres a day.
Some residents have switched to Trans Metro Dewata buses: at the height of the shortages, 6501 people rode them in a single day, more than on any other day in October.
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