Lightening Electricity Tariffs in the Corona Pandemic Period Assessed by Sheer Deception, Riau HMI Riau Islands Discuss Protest Movement to PLN Pekanbaru

News24xx.com - The electricity payment relief applied by PLN is only a hoax during the corona virus pandemic. The Riau-Kepri Islamic Student Association (HMI) is discussing a protest movement scheme to PLN Pekanbaru.

"We have monitored information through social media. The Pekanbari community complained about the increase in electricity bills. We regret this incident," said Deputy General Secretary of the Student Affairs and Youth Coordinating Agency (Wakesum PTKP Badko) HMI Riau Kepri Septian when contacted Riau1.com, Friday, contacted Riau1.com, Friday (5/6/2020).

Pekanbaru residents are given a relief from paying electricity tariffs during the corona virus pandemic. But when they want to meet New Normal, there is an increase which is considered to suffocate the public, especially the middle to lower classes.

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"The electricity tariff relief during the corona pandemic was considered a fraud and a hoax. Where to go to the New Normal phase there was even an additional burden on PLN's tariff relief in the past," said Septian.

Responding to the issue of unilateral electricity tariff increases, Riau-Kepri HMI will conduct an internal discussion first with friends of the Riau-Kepri HMI functionary Badko. This discussion is to determine the protest movement scheme to PLN Pekanbaru.

Reported earlier, PLN Public Relations Manager Wilah Riau - Riau Islands, Tajuddin contacted Riau1.com explained, if customer bills are inappropriate or improper it asks residents to contact call center 123 (0761-).

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"Or you can come directly to the nearest PLN rayon with a photo of a stand meter, the problem will be checked later, if there is an error, it can be corrected, but if the use is high, of course there is a solution according to central regulations," he said briefly.

To note, PLN released a scheme of calculating household customer bills whose electricity bills jumped in June. Under this scheme, customers who experienced bills in June jumped more than 20 percent compared to May due to billing using an average of the last three months, then the increase will be paid by 40 percent, and the remainder is divided equally in bills in the next three months.

But in reality, the scheme is not the case. Where residents have experienced an increase in payments of up to 100-200 percent in June 2020.