PHRI DIY Supports The "Food Bank" Program In Yogyakarta City

YOGYAKARTA - The Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI) of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) expressed support for the Matraman Lumbung Bank Food Program launched by the Yogyakarta City Government to distribute excess food to people in need.

"We support this commitment. PHRI members support this 'food bank', but as best we can. Because now hotels and restaurants in producing food must also be taken into account," said PHRI DIY Chairman Dedi Pranowo Ernowo in his statement in Yogyakarta, Thursday.

According to Dedi, the involvement of hotel and restaurant players in the program is voluntary.

However, he hopes that all PHRI members in the city of Yogyakarta can participate in distributing excess food that is still suitable for consumption through the City Government.

"I think the food bank can also help us to distribute excess food that is still feasible. But of course we can't force friends of PHRI members," he said.

The Food Bank "Matraman Barn" program is one of the acceleration programs or "quick win" 100 working days of the Mayor of Yogyakarta Hasto Wardoyo and Deputy Mayor Wawan Harmawan.

Yogyakarta Mayor Hasto Wardoyo expressed his gratitude for PHRI's support for the program.

He said the Yogyakarta City Government was ready to pick up the ball if there were excess foods that were not consumed in hotels or restaurants.

"We want to work with hotels if one day there is still good food but maybe we don't consume it well, (via) this Food Bank we are ready to pick up the ball," said Hasto.

The food collected will later be distributed to vulnerable groups in the city of Yogyakarta, such as elderly people, travelers, difficult students, to poor widows who cannot travel, which number is around 1,068 people.

"We don't want to bother. If there is leniency in sustenance, some are not eaten but still fit to eat, then we will accept that," he said.

He explained that the Mataraman Barn program in this city is not in the form of rice fields or fields such as in the district around Yogyakarta, but in the form of human resources.

"This city doesn't have rice fields, it doesn't have mountains. But we have humans and the intention to share. So this program is important," he said.