Tanjung Priok Port Police Capture 6 3 kg of gas cooperatives to portable tubes

Jakarta – Tanjung Priok Port Police Satreskrim revealed a case of 3 kg of subsidized gas mixing in a portable tube. Six offenders were arrested. This case is a announcement of five cases of criminal acts of abuse of subsidized gas fuel periods from July to August 2025. Tanjung Priok -Port Head of Police Chief AKBP Martuasah H Tobing explained that the announcement of this case was part of the full support of the ASTA Cita president, and the President of the National Police Chief and the Jakarta -Metro -Metro -Metro -Metro -Metro- -Police, especially in supervision and legislation on all forms of all forms of the fury and idiobasis, especially in supervision abuse activities. Browse to continue with the contents of the six suspects is IR (26), CC (32), FS (38), NT (20), HT (38) and AA (24). The six suspects were arrested in various places in the jurisdiction of the Tanjung Priok Metro Jaya Police Port. The offenders can produce dozens of portable gas cylinders from the injection of a 3 kg LPG cylinder. They use homemade spray on digital scales in the introduction of the action. “The transfer of gas from a subsidized 3 kg LPG gas cylinder to a portable gas cylinder is exported using a syringe, namely the composite gas regulator (adapted), and then weighs with a digital weighing device to find out the weight of each portable gas cylinder,” he said. The gas mixed in a portable tube is then sold by social media and e-commerce, and conventional or consumers come directly to the home of the suspect below the market price. The profits obtained range from RP 38-93 thousand. “The suspect has managed to attract consumers because the price offered is much cheaper than the official price/market price,” he explained. “The practice of 3 kg LPG gas that blends in a portable gas cylinder does not go through the right process so that it has the potential to threaten safety or security,” the police chief added. The testimony that was successfully secured was 11 3 kg of gas cylinders, 2 3 kg of empty gas cylinders, 557 portable cans, 442 portable cans, 7 regulators, 2 digital scales and 4 mobile units. The suspects are subject to Article 32 paragraph 2 Jo Article 30 and Article 31 of Law No. 2 of 1981 regarding legal metrology. Section 62 paragraph (1) Jo section 8 paragraph (1) letter B and c of the Act number 8 of 1999 regarding consumer protection. Section 55 of the Act number 22 of 2001 regarding oil and gas which is amended in section 40 Number 9 Act number 6 of 2023 regarding the establishment of PPPU number 2 of 2022 regarding work CIPTA. With a maximum imprisonment of 6 years. (cover/jbr)