Director Of Food Station Suspects Of Oplosan Rice, DKI Provincial Government Prioritizes Non-Disturbed Food Distribution

JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung has received a report that the President Director of PT Food Station Tjipinang Jaya has been named a suspect in cases of rice circulation that do not comply with quality standards or mixed rice.

Pramono received a report from his subordinates while he was currently in Bali. As a follow-up, Pramono immediately ordered his staff to prioritize handling food distribution in the midst of the legal case.

"The governor must have updated the current situation. What is certain is that we will continue to prioritize food distribution through the Food Station," said Special Staff to the Governor of DKI Jakarta for Social Communication Chico Hakim when contacted, Friday, August 1.

The DKI Provincial Government, continued Chico, is still waiting for legal steps that are being processed by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police before determining the fate of the ranks of the Food Station directors who are suspects.

What is clear is that the priority of the DKI Provincial Government is currently to maintain the stability of the distribution of foodstuffs, which is the main task of Food Station as a regionally owned enterprise (BUMD) in Jakarta.

"What is prioritized by the provincial government now is that the distribution of foodstuffs which are the responsibility of the food station is not disturbed. If it is related to other things, it will follow suit," Chico explained.

The National Police's Food Task Force has named three suspects in cases of rice circulation that do not comply with quality standards or mixed rice. One of the suspects is the President Director of PT Food Station, Gunarso Employee.

"Investigators have conducted a case title and found two pieces of evidence to increase the status of three employees of PT FS as suspects," said Head of the National Police Food Task Force who is also the Director of Special Economic Crimes at Bareskrim Polri, Brigadier General Helfi Assegaf to reporters, Jakarta, Friday, August 1.

Two other suspects, namely RL as Director of Operations and RP who served as Head of Quality Control Section.

The determination of the three suspects was made after investigators conducted a series of investigations and examinations on a number of parties, including witnesses, consumer protection experts, laboratory experts for product quality testing from the Ministry of Agriculture, as well as criminal experts.

"Business actors do production and trade premium rice not according to the quality standards of premium rice SNI," said Helfi.

The three of them are considered responsible for the production and distribution of premium rice that does not meet Indonesia's national standards (SNI).

During the investigation process, the police also confiscated evidence in the form of a total of 132.65 tons of rice, consisting of 127.3 tons of premium rice in 5 kilograms of various brands, produced by PT Food Station, 5.53 tons of premium rice in a 2.5 kilogram packaging, also produced by PT Food Station.

The three suspects were charged with Article 62 in conjunction with Article 8 paragraph (1) letters a and f of Law Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection, as well as Article 3, Article 4, and Article 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Crime of Money Laundering (TPPU).