There Is A Prabowo-Gibran Sticker In The Rice SHPH Packaging, Bulog Boss Opens His Voice

JAKARTA - Viral on social media X photos of Bulog's Supply Stabilization and Food Price (SPHP) rice, affixed with campaign stickers of candidate pair number 02 Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

Responding to this, the President Director of Perum Bulog Bayu Krisnamurthi also emphasized that Bulog packs and distributes SPHP rice without strikers and any attributes.

"Except for the attributes of Bulog and the National Food Agency," he said, quoted from the official Instagram @perum.bulog, Friday, January 26.

Furthermore, Bayu explained that the SPHP is a government program through the National Food Agency implemented by Bulog in order to maintain rice price stability.

In its distribution, Bayu said Bulog cooperates with various distributor networks to modern retailers. The goal, he said, is for people to easily access the rice so that the SPHP program is carried out massively.

"When the rice has been marketed to the public, Bulog can no longer regulate the use of the rice," he said.

Previously, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said social assistance (bansos) was a government program, so it was confirmed that there were no presidential and vice presidential candidates.

The chairman of the Golkar Party also dismissed the issue of Bulog rice assistance which was found with the Gibran Rakabuming Raka sticker.

"If all social assistance is from the government, there is no program from any candidate pair that uses government social assistance, it doesn't exist," said Airlangga when questioned by reporters on Thursday, January 25, in Bekasi, West Java.