Revealed! Cooking Oil Stockpile 1.1 Million Kg In Deli Serdang Owned By Conglomerate Anthony Salim, Management: For Instant Noodle Factory Needs

JAKARTA - The pile of cooking oil found by the Food Task Force Team of North Sumatra Province in Deli Serdanng Regency, turned out to belong to PT Salim Ivomas Pratama Tbk (SIMP). Unmitigated pile of cooking oil that is ready to be marketed amounted to 1.1 million kilograms.

On this news, the management of Salim Ivomas also opened his voice. According to one of the Indofood Group entities belonging to conglomerate Anthony Salim, 1.1 million kg of cooking oil found by the Task Force team at the Deli Serdang Factory Warehouse, is equivalent to 80 thousand cartons for 2-3 days of delivery.

"All available stock is an order and ready to be distributed to our customers for the next few days," wrote Salim Ivomas management in a statement, Saturday, February 19.

Even so, the producer of the Bimoli brand of cooking oil said that the company's cooking oil factory prioritizes meeting the cooking oil needs of the Group's instant noodle factories spread throughout Indonesia, including in Deli Serdang. This, he said, is to ensure that food needs are in good supply.

"Our cooking oil production at the Lubuk Pakam Deli Serdang Factory is mainly used for the needs of Indofood's instant noodle factory in Sumatra, amounting to 2,500 tons/month," added Salim Ivomas' management.

In addition to meeting its own needs, the company processes the excess into branded cooking oil in various sizes, especially 1 liter and 2 liter packages of 550 thousand cartons/month. According to Salim Ivomas management, the distribution is done to our distributors and modern markets in Aceh, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau, South Sumatra and Jambi.

The company also emphasized that Salim Ivoas as a company that grows and develops in Indonesia always complies with all the rules and regulations that apply in Indonesia. In this case, it is related to the regulation of the Ministry of Trade.

As is known, the Head of the Economic Bureau of the North Sumatra Provincial Government, Naslindo Sirait said the Food Task Force consisting of the North Sumatra Police and the Industry and Trade Department conducted an inspection to investigate the scarcity of cooking oil.

"Today we did an inspection of one cooking oil producer, last night we went to the markets to see the availability of cooking oil, several markets were empty. Today we saw the fact that there were around 1.1 million kilograms of cooking oil ready to be marketed. in the warehouse," said Naslindo, Friday, February 18.

Naslindo explained that when the pile of cooking oil was found, the officers at the location said they did not distribute the cooking oil to the market. The reason is, there is a policy from management that prohibits this.

The discovery of the location of this cooking oil pile, he said, has now been handed over to the North Sumatra Police.