On the second day of selling subsidised Pertalite based on odd and even number plates, queues at Bali's petrol stations almost disappeared.
On Sunday morning, every station from Nusa Dua to Sanur was free of queues. In the afternoon, there were just two bikes waiting at a pump on the Ngurah Rai Bypass.
Things had already eased in the south on Saturday. On Sunset Road in Kuta, filling up took 15–20 minutes, and on Jalan Teuku Umar in Denpasar it took about ten. The situation also improved in other parts of the island: in the east on Sunday, people waited 10–15 minutes, and stations in the north had almost one and a half times more Pertalite than usual.
Fuel continues to arrive on the island: on Friday, two more tankers carrying 20 million litres of Pertalite reached Bali. The state oil and gas company Pertamina, which runs petrol stations across Indonesia, is monitoring waiting times at the pumps every day together with the provincial authorities and adjusting its measures based on that data.
Pertalite will be sold based on odd and even number plates until Monday, 19 October, when vehicles whose plates end in an odd digit can fill up.
The limit of 3 litres per bike and 20 per car will remain in place until supplies return to normal. Pertamax, a more expensive grade of petrol, is sold to cars and bikes with any number plate.
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