Beef Prices Rise, KPPU: We Have Not Found Violation

JAKARTA - The increase in the price of beef and live cattle from Australia has resulted in an increase in the price of meat in the country. Especially in the Jakarta area. As a result, the Indonesian Meat Traders Association (APDI), once held a sales strike and asked the government to stabilize the price of beef cattle at the feedlot and RPH levels as well as the price of meat in the market.

Then, is the increase in meat prices caused by games from speculators? Deputy Chairman of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU), Guntur Saragih, said that his party had not found any violations against the increase in meat prices. This is because we haven't done the research. Moreover, the increase in meat only occurred in Jabodetabek.

"So far, we have not yet entered the research stage, so there has been no violation. So we are still seeing the increase in meat prices. Is this increase due to business competition," he said, in the Supervision webinar on Garlic Commodities, Friday, January 22.

According to Guntur, the increase in meat prices was due to a number of reasons. For example, the supply price of beef is expensive. However, it could also be due to other conditions.

"We are monitoring the price of this meat. But we have not yet reached the research," he explained.

The increase in meat in 2021, according to Guntur, is different from the violations of business competition that occurred in 2016. The reason is in 2021 due to many other factors. One of them, the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We cannot yet conclude whether this increase is due to business competition," he said.

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Previously, the Ministry of Trade would issue a cattle import permit. This was revealed by the Chairperson of the Indonesian Meat Traders Association (APDI) Asnawi. Beef imports are carried out to stabilize the high prices of slaughterhouses.

He said the Ministry of Trade would grant importers permits to import cattle from Mexico and Slaughter cattle from Australia.

Regarding the strike action, APDI Jakarta asked the meat traders to return to trading. This is in line with the demands of the DKI Jakarta APDI management by the government regarding the stabilization of beef cattle prices at the feedlot and RPH levels as well as the price of meat in the market.

"We hereby appeal to our meat traders to be able to trade again, Friday, January 22, 2021," quoted from a letter signed by the Daily Chairperson of the DPP APDI Asnawi, Friday, January 22.