A House commission chairman has warned that hiking Pertamax's price 32.11 percent could push consumers toward cheaper subsidized fuels, even as the world continues to grapple with the energy fallout from the Middle East crisis.

Prices for subsidized Pertalite and Biosolar, however, remain unchanged.

JAKARTA: Indonesian state firm Pertamina has raised some fuel prices by almost a third in the first increase since the Iran war began, and the finance minister said there would be…