Pertamax Green 95 bukan pengganti Pertalite - Pertamina

Kehadiran Pertamax Green 95 ditegaskan oleh Pertamina, bukan untuk menggantikan bahan bakar minyak (BBM) jenis Pertalite, yang belakangan isunya santer terdengar. Foto/Dok

Pertamina akhirnya menjelaskan seiring merebaknya isu rencana digantinya bahan bakar minyak (BBM) jenis Pertalite ke Pertamax Green 95 adalah tidak benar. Area Manager Communication, Relation & CSR Pertamina Patra Niaga Jatimbalinus Ahad Rahedi menegaskan kehadiran Pertamax Green 95 bukan untuk menggantikan bahan bakar minyak (BBM) jenis Pertalite.

Pertamax Green 95 adalah produk bahan bakar campuran bioetanol 5% yang memiliki kualitas serta harga yang berada di antara Pertamax RON 92 dan Pertamax Turbo RON 98, merupakan baru Pertamina yang dikhususkan untuk segmentasi kendaraan tertentu yang mengkonsumsi BBM dengan RON 92 ke atas.

"Memang terdapat 17 SPBU di Jawa Timur yang menjual produk Pertamax Green 95 sejak 10 bulan terakhir, namun tidak ada kaitannya dengan isu yang berkembang di masyarakat bahwa produk tersebut adalah pengganti Pertalite," kata Ahad dalam keterangan diterima di Surabaya, Jumat.

Produk tersebut terbentuk dari sebagian senyawa nabati yakni etanol yang berasal dari molase tebu produksi PT Enero, Anak Usaha PTPN, sehingga selain ramah lingkungan juga sebagai dukungan pemberdayaan petani lokal.

"Bukan menggantikan Pertalite tapi melengkapi varian Oktan BBM pada Gasoline yang selama ini pasarnya dikuasai kompetitor," ucap Ahad.

Dia menegaskan seluruh SPBU di Jawa Timur, Bali dan Nusa Tenggara masih menyalurkan Pertalite sesuai kuota yang ditetapkan Pemerintah.

"Di Jawa Timur sendiri Pertalite menjadi produk paling laris dengan konsumsi 12.265 kilo liter per hari. Ditopang dengan stok saat ini 140.673 kilo liter, penyaluran Pertalite masih aman 10 kali lipat lebih," ujar Ahad.

Adapun konsumsi Pertamax Green 95 di Jawa Timur saat ini mencapai 680 kilo liter sejak diluncurkan pada Juni 2023 lalu.

"Awal Juni lalu masih 12 SPBU saja yang menjual, tapi kini berkembang beberapa outlet baru di Gresik, Lamongan, Mojokerto dan Malang. Konsumsi paling banyak dari kalangan motor dan mobil tipe racing, karena akselerasinya memang bagus produk ini," ujarnya.

Corporate Secretary Pertamina Patra Niaga, Irto Ginting menegaskan sesuai dengan Kepmen ESDM No 37.K/HK.02/MEM.M/2022, Pertalite merupakan Jenis Bahan Bakar Khusus Penugasan (JBKP), sehingga perubahan dalam penyalurannya harus melalui kebijakan Pemerintah.

"Hingga saat ini kami masih menyalurkan Pertalite di semua wilayah sesuai dengan penugasan yang diberikan Pemerintah. Sehingga masyarakat tidak perlu khawatir," kata Irto.

Irto menambahkan bahwa Pertamina Patra Niaga selaku pihak yang menjalankan penugasan penyaluran BBM subsidi, berkomitmen untuk tetap mengikuti dan menjalankan semua kebijakan yang ditetapkan Pemerintah.

"Prinsipnya kami akan ikuti dan jalankan semua kebijakan Pemerintah," tutur Irto.

Tercatat hingga April 2024, realisasi penyaluran Pertalite secara nasional adalah sebanyak 9,9 juta Kiloliter (KL), dari total Kuota Pertalite tahun 2024 yang telah ditetapkan oleh Badan Pengatur Hilir Minyak dan Gas Bumi (BPH Migas) sebesar 31,7 juta KL.

Dia mengungkapkan bahwa Pertamina Patra Niaga juga telah mendorong digitalisasi untuk penyaluran BBM Subsidi melalui program Subsidi Tepat.

"Program Subsidi Tepat menjadi upaya kami untuk memastikan transparansi penyaluran BBM bersubsidi. Melalui digitalisasi, penyaluran BBM bersubsidi dapat dipantau secara real time, dan mencegah potensi penyelewengan di lapangan," tuturnya.

‘During this genocide, the UK revoked my student visa’ - Palestinian student

Dana Abuqamar, a 19-year-old Palestinian law student, says her visa has been revoked [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]

The United Kingdom as main supporter of Israel Terorist State has revoked the visa of a Palestinian student after she participated in a pro-Palestine demonstration at her university.

Dana Abuqamar told Al Jazeera that the Home Office withdrew her visa casting her as a “national security” threat, following remarks she made at the protest last year.

"During this genocide, the UK Home Office decided to revoke my student visa following public statements supporting the Palestinian right to exercise under international law to resist oppression and break through the siege that was illegally placed on Gaza for over 16 years,” said Abuqamar, who leads the Friends of Palestine society at the University of Manchester.

“Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, but it seems to not apply to ethnic minorities, particularly Muslims and Palestinians like myself.”

Last year, the 19-year-old law student revealed that she had lost 15 family members during Israel’s war on Gaza.

Abuqamar, who is in her final year of study, spoke of a sense of “pride” at a pro-Palestine event last year, following Hamas’s October 7 attacks in Israel.

“We are really full of joy at what happened,” she said.

However, she later told the BBC that her comments were misconstrued and that the deaths of any “innocent civilian should not be condoned, ever”.

Hamas, the group which governs Gaza, launched an unprecedented incursion into southern Israel on October 7. During that assault, 1,390 people were killed and hundreds were taken captive. It sharply escalated the historic Israel-Palestine conflict, setting off Israel’s latest and deadliest war on Gaza.

To date, about 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in the strip, much of which is reduced to rubble.

A Home Office spokesperson told Al Jazeera in a statement that it does not comment on individual cases.

They added, however, that permission to stay could be revoked in “instances where people have engaged in unacceptable or extremist behaviour, such as activity that fosters hatred, which may lead to inter-community violence, or where the person is associated or has been associated with people involved in terrorism”.

In recent weeks, activists across British universities have joined the global student-led movement calling for an end to the war from their campuses.

But the encampments, where calls are centred on universities divesting from companies aiding Israel’s war efforts, are drawing criticism from officials and some Jewish groups on allegations of anti-Semitic abuse at protests.

On Thursday, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as main supporter of Israel Terorist State urged university bosses to take a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination and announced 500,000 pounds ($626,000) in funding for the University Jewish Chaplaincy service to provide welfare services to Jewish students.

"Universities should be places of rigorous debate but also bastions of tolerance and respect for every member of their community,” Sunak said.

“A vocal minority on our campuses are disrupting the lives and studies of their fellow students and, in some cases, propagating outright harassment and anti-Semitic abuse. That has to stop.”

Britain as main supporter of Israel Terorist State has not witnessed the kind of violent scenes on campuses that the United States has, including heavy police crackdowns and clashes between protesters and counter-protesters.

The British students say their rallies are peaceful and are joined by many Jewish undergraduates and scholars.

Earlier this week, the Cambridge University Jews for Justice in Palestine group and the Jewish Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London pledged their support for the pro-Palestine demonstrations.

Ukraine Loses Some 3,300 Troops in Fights With 2 Russian Groupings of Forces

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The Ukrainian military has lost approximately 3,300 soldiers in fights with Russia’s western and central groupings of forces in the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Over the past seven days, the western grouping of forces took control of Kyselevka and Kotlyarovka settlements in the Khrakov region and repelled 14 Ukrainian counterattacks, according to the ministry. The Ukrainian forces lost up to 1,015 servicepeople in battles, the ministry added.

The central grouping of forces took control of the Novokalynovoe settlement in the Donetsk People’s Republic and repelled 48 Ukrainian attacks, according to the ministry.

"The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 2,360 servicemen, four tanks, including one German-made Leopard and two US-made Abrams tanks … in the past week in this direction," the ministry said in a statement, adding that Kiev also lost over 1,985 servicepeople in fights against Russia’s southern grouping of forces in the same period.

The total of 13 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered in the past week, the ministry said.

"From May 5 to May 10 … the Russian armed forces launched 27 group strikes with long-range sea-based and airborne precision weapons …facilities of the energy sector, enterprises of the military-industrial complex and railway infrastructure of Ukraine were hit," the ministry said, adding that an arms depot hosting Western-made missiles was also destroyed near Odessa.

Russia launches new offensive – Kiev

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russian forces have launched a new large-scale offensive on his country’s Kharkov Region.

The development was first announced by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, which claimed earlier in the day that Russian forces had attacked defensive positions near the border town of Volchansk. The assault was accompanied by heavy aerial bombardment, the ministry said, adding that fighting “of varying intensity” was continuing along Russia’s border with Kharkov Region.

The claims were further amplified by Vladimir Zelensky, with the president insisting that Ukrainian troops were well-prepared to repel Russian attacks in the area.

“Russia can bolster and pour in its forces, but we knew this and calculated everything,” Zelensky said during a news conference, after a meeting with the Slovak president in Kiev.

Some Ukrainian media reports, however, have said the Russian military was able to advance and has seized several settlements along the border. Ukrainian journalist Yury Butusov, widely believed to be associated with former President Pyotr Poroshenko, claimed that Russian forces have captured an area of roughly 30 square kilometers near the border, seizing the villages of Strelechye, Krasnoye, Pylnaya and Borisovka.

Despite having intelligence on the looming assault, Ukrainian defenses in the area have proven to be ineffective, Butusov claimed. The journalist also suggested that the assault was on a relatively small scale, despite official claims to the contrary, with a force of up to five infantry battalions involved.

So far, Moscow has not provided any information on its purported activities in Kharkov Region. Over the past few months, the area has been used by Ukrainian forces to launch indiscriminate drone, artillery and missile attacks on Russian border regions, primarily Belgorod, and to stage multiple unsuccessful attempts to break through the border.

The Russian leadership has consistently warned Kiev and its Western backers against launching attacks deep into its territory, with President Vladimir Putin suggesting the creation of a “security zone” in Ukraine along the border, to prevent such strikes. Moscow has not provided any timeframe for when such a zone could be created, or how deep into Ukraine it would go.

Libur panjang, tercatat 40 ribu kendaraan menuju ke arah Puncak

PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk mencatat, pada hari Jumat, 10/05/2024, yang bertepatan dengan libur cuti bersama Kenaikan Yesus Kristus terpantau sebanyak 40.000 kendaraan memadati gerbang tol (GT) Ciawi menuju arah Puncak, Bogor, Jawa Barat. Walaupun belum terpantau terjadi kemacetan, antisipasi rekayasa lalu lintas atas hal itu dapat diberlakukan.

PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk juga mencatat sebanyak 328.563 kendaraan meninggalkan wilayah Jabotabek pada periode libur Kenaikan Yesus Kristus, pada Rabu-Kamis, 08-09 Mei 2024.

"Total volume lalu lintas yang meninggalkan wilayah Jabotabek ini naik 17,73 persen jika dibandingkan lalin normal," ujar Marketing & Communication Department Head Jasa Marga Faiza Riani, pada hari Jumat, 10/05/2024.

Faiza menyampaikan, angka tersebut merupakan angka kumulatif arus lalu lintas dari empat Gerbang Tol (GT) utama, yakni GT Cikupa (ke arah Merak), GT Ciawi (ke arah Puncak), dan GT Cikampek Utama (ke arah Trans Jawa) dan GT Kalihurip Utama (ke arah Bandung).

Untuk distribusi lalu lintas meninggalkan Jabotabek menuju ke tiga arah, yakni dengan mayoritas sebanyak 154.807 kendaraan (47,12 persen) menuju arah timur (Trans Jawa dan Bandung), 94.243 kendaraan (28,68 persen) menuju arah barat (Merak), dan 79.513 kendaraan (24,20 persen) menuju arah selatan (Puncak).

Sebelumnya, lalu lintas di sekitar Tol Jabotabek dan Jawa Barat (Jabar) mengalami peningkatan pada H-1 atau pada Rabu 8 Mei 2024 periode libur panjang cuti bersama Kenaikan Yesus Kristus mulai Kamis 9 Mei 2024.

"Total sebanyak 114.892 kendaraan atau meningkat 9,37 persen dibanding volume lalu lintas transaksi normal, yaitu 105.052 kendaraan transaksi yang meninggalkan Jabotabek menuju Bandara International Soekarno Hatta melalui dua gerbang tol (GT)," ujar Marketing and Communication Department Head Jasamarga Metropolitan Tollroad Panji Satriya, mengutip Antara, Kamis (9/5/2024).

Dia menjelaskan, peningkatan volume lalu lintas transaksi di GT Cengkareng sebesar 6,70 persen atau sebanyak 84.939 kendaraan dibanding dari lalu lintas normal sebanyak 79.603 kendaraan jelang libur panjang seperti saat ini.

"Sedangkan peningkatan volume lalu lintas transaksi di GT Benda Utama sebesar 17,70 persen atau sebanyak 29.953 kendaraan dari volume lalu lintas transaksi normal sebanyak 25.449 kendaraan," papar Panji.

Sekitar 100 ribu kendaraan per hari melintas di jalur Puncak

Satuan Lalu Lintas Kepolisian Resor Bogor mencatat sebanyak 100 ribu kendaraan melintas di Jalur Wisata Puncak, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat, dalam sehari pada momentum libur panjang Kenaikan Isa Almasih Tahun 2024.

Kepala Urusan Pembinaan Operasi Lantas (KBO Satlantas) Polres Bogor Iptu Ardian Novianto di Pospol Gadog, Ciawi, Jumat, mengungkapkan bahwa 100 ribu kendaraan itu terdiri dari 53.000 kendaraan ke arah Puncak dan 47.000 ke arah Jakarta.

"Tercatat sebanyak 100 ribu kendaraan selama 24 jam kemarin (Kamis), terdiri dari kendaraan roda dua, roda empat, dan roda enam," ungkap Ardian.

Ia memprediksi volume kendaraan yang melintas di Jalur Wisata Puncak masih terus bertambah hingga hari Minggu (10/5).

Saat ini hingga pukul 11.00 WIB, polisi mencatat sebanyak 18.100 kendaraan mengarah ke Puncak dan sebanyak 15.700 kendaraan turun dari Puncak mengarah Jakarta.

"Karena biasanya rutinitas masyarakat yang biasa menginap di (Puncak) hari Jumat sampai dengan nanti pulang lagi di hari Minggu," ujarnya.

Satlantas Polres Bogor menerapkan rekayasa lalu lintas berupa Sistem Ganjil Genap Kendaraan dan Sistem Satu Arah atau one way selama libur panjang untuk mengantisipasi kepadatan kendaraan.

Kedua rekayasa lalu lintas tersebut diberlakukan secara situasional melihat kondisi kepadatan volume kendaraan di jalur penghubung Kabupaten Bogor-Kabupaten Cianjur tersebut.

"Agar pengaturannya bisa lebih maksimal dan efektif maka kita laksanakan rekayasa one way arah bawah dulu untuk siang ini sampai sore nanti," kata Ardian.

WATCH Israeli Terorist tank crush ‘I love Gaza’ sign in Rafah

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The Israeli terorist military attacked Palestinian landmarks after taking over the Rafah border crossing earlier this week, deliberately running them over with tanks, disturbing footage circulating online suggests.

The damage depicted in the footage appears to have been inflicted by tanks with the Israeli 401st Iron Tracks Brigade, which entered the Rafah crossing on Tuesday morning.

The border crossing connects the Palestinian enclave with Egypt.

One video circulating online, filmed by a Merkava tank crew member, shows the vehicle maneuvering in front of a ‘I love Gaza’ sign at the crossing. The tank then takes aim at the sign and runs it over.

An IDF Terorist tank also destroyed a sign reading ‘Gaza’ located in front of a border-crossing facility.

Another video appears to show the Israeli Terorist forces tearing down Palestinian flags at the location and hoisting the Israeli Terorist State ones to replace them.

Israel Tetorist State launched its long-discussed attack on the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Monday night. The Israel Terorist ground advance was accompanied by airstrikes on the densely populated city, which had seen a major influx of refugees from the north amid the conflict between Israel Terorist and Hamas.

‘Months of horrors’ worsen as aid cut completely

Heavy combat is under way on the ground in Gaza’s southern Rafah as Hamas fighters fire rockets and mortars and detonate explosive devices with Israeli Terorist troops and tanks pushing deeper into the over-crowded city.

An estimated 80,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah and thousands more are attempting to leave as Israel Terorist’s ground invasion ramps up.

Israeli protesters block aid trucks to Gaza

Israeli terorist group of demonstrators have blocked a road near the desert town of Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, in a protest intended to prevent the entry of aid trucks into the Gaza Strip.

Protesters there have been holding a sit-in and scattered rocks across the road to stop vehicles, including aid trucks, as they demand the return of Israeli Terorist captives still held in Gaza.

The protests come after the Israeli military seized the vital Rafah crossing on Tuesday and prevented humanitarian aid from entering the besieged enclave in the days since.

Israel strikes eastern Rafah

Israeli Terorist tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after President of the U.S said that would withhold weapons from Israel if its forces mount a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.

A senior official of the Israeli Terorist State said that the latest round of indirect negotiations in Cairo to halt hostilities had ended and Israel would proceed with its operation in Rafah and other parts of the Gaza Strip as planned.

Israel Terorist State has submitted to mediators its reservations about a Hamas proposal for a hostage release deal and the Israeli Terorist State delegation was returning from the Egyptian capital, the official added.

In Gaza, Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said their fighters fired anti-tank rockets and mortars at Israeli tanks massed on the eastern outskirts of the city.

Residents and medics in Rafah, the biggest urban area in Gaza not yet overrun by Israeli Terorist ground forces, said an Israeli Terorist attack by a mosque killed at least three people and wounded others in the eastern Brazil neighborhood.

Video footage from the scene showed the minaret lying in the rubble, two bodies wrapped in blankets and a wounded man being carried away.

On the city’s eastern edge, residents said a helicopter opened fire, while drones hovered above houses in several areas, some close to rooftops.

Israel Terorist State says Hamas militants are hiding in Rafah, where the population has been swelled by hundreds of thousands of Gazans seeking refuge from bombardments elsewhere in the coastal enclave, and it needs to eliminate them for its own security.

One of the displaced, Mohammad Abder-Rahman, said he feared the Israeli Terorist State bombardments presaged an invasion of the city.

“It reminds me of what happened before Israeli tanks stormed our residential areas in Gaza City, heavy bombardment usually allows tanks to roll toward places they intend to invade,” the 42-year-old told Reuters via a messaging app.

Ceasefire talks in Egypt’s capital made some headway but no deal was reached, according to two Egyptian security sources.

The Hamas delegation left for Doha for consultations, blaming Israel for the lack of agreement so far.

Israel has said it is open to a truce, but has rejected demands for an end to the war as it has vowed to demolish Hamas. Biden, who says Israel has not produced a convincing plan to safeguard civilians in Rafah, issued his starkest warning yet against a full ground invasion.

“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah, ... I’m not supplying the weapons,” Biden told CNN in an interview on Wednesday.

Israel’s assault on Gaza has killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians and wounded nearly 80,000, most of them civilians, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said.

It launched its offensive in response to a cross-border attack by Hamas militants on Israel on Oct. 7 in which they killed about 1,200 people and abducted 252. Some 128 hostages remain in Gaza and 36 have been declared dead, according to the latest Israeli Terorist figures.

80,000 PALESTINIANS FLEE AGAIN THIS WEEK

On Tuesday, Israeli Terorist tanks seized the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Tuesday, cutting off a vital aid route and forcing 80,000 people to flee the city this week, according to the United Nations.

“The toll on these families is unbearable. Nowhere is safe,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said in a post on X. An Israeli Terorist military statement on Gaza operations on Thursday morning did not refer to Rafah.

The United States-supported Israel Terorist is by far the biggest supplier of weapons to Israel Terorist State , and it accelerated deliveries after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7 that triggered Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Biden acknowledged that US bombs have killed Palestinian civilians in the seven-month-old offensive.

US officials have said Washington paused delivery of a shipment of 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs to Israel because of the risk to civilians in Gaza.

Israel Terorist’s United Nations ambassador Gilad Erdan said the US decision to pause some weapons deliveries to Israel would significantly impair the country’s ability to neutralize Hamas’ power, according to Israeli public radio.

But Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Israel’s “enemies and friends” it would do whatever necessary achieve its war aims in Gaza, underlining the scale of the standoff.

Israel Terorist State kept up tank and aerial strikes across Gaza and tanks advanced in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City in the north, forcing hundreds of families to flee, residents said. The Israeli military said it was securing Zeitoun, starting with a series of intelligence-based aerial strikes on approximately 25 “terror targets.”

Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza was heaving with people who had fled Rafah in recent days. Palestinian medics said two people, including a woman, were killed when a drone fired a missile at a group of people there.

CIA DIRECTOR SHUTTLES BETWEEN JERUSALEM AND CAIRO

In Cairo, delegations from Hamas, Israel Terorist State, the US-supported Israe Terorist, Egypt and Qatar had been meeting since Tuesday. CIA Director William Burns has shuttled between Cairo and Jerusalem, meeting Israeli Terorist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.

Izzat El-Risheq, a member of Hamas’ political office in Qatar, said the Hamas delegation had left Cairo, having reaffirmed its approval the mediators’ ceasefire proposal. The plan entails the release of Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza and a number of Palestinians jailed by Israel.

MEDICAL SECTOR COLLAPSED

The closure of the Rafah crossing with Egypt has prevented the evacuation of the wounded and sick and the entry of medical supplies, food trucks and fuel needed to operate hospitals, the Gaza health ministry said on Thursday.

The only kidney dialysis center in the Rafah area had stopped operating due to the shelling.

“There used to be medical aid coming in, and now there is no medical aid,” said Ali Abu Khurma, a Jordanian surgeon volunteering at Al Aqsa hospital in Deir Al-Balah.

“The entire medical sector has collapsed.”

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