Ternyata, Dirut Food Station Sudah Menyampaikan Pengunduran Diri Ke Pramono Sebelum Ditetapkan Tersangka

Workers check the availability of rice stocks at the Food Station warehouse in Jakarta, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (ANTARA-Khaerul Izan)

JAKARTA - President Director of PT Food Station Tjipinang Jaya Employee Gunarso has been named a suspect in the mixed rice case. Shortly after the determination of the suspect, the DKI Provincial Government announced that Employees had resigned from their positions.

It turned out that DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung revealed that employees had submitted their resignations before the determination of the suspect was revealed by the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Police.

This was also done by the Director of Operations of Food Station Ronny Lisapaly who was named a suspect along with Employees.

"They were before it was announced, even though it was just a rumor, they had submitted their resignations," said Pramono at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Tuesday, August 5.

Pramono admitted that when the findings of mixed rice were only revealed by the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Police, he had warned all levels of the Food Station board of directors to be responsible if they were involved in the case.

"Before this incident exploded, at that time I had summoned the President Director and the board of directors. I have conveyed, if this happens, then immediately take a position," said Pramono.

After the resignation of Employees, Pramono immediately appointed Director of Finance and General Food Station Julius Sutjiadi as Acting Director of Food Station. Julius is the only Food Station director who is not a suspect in this case.

"It's just the Director of Finance, of course, the Director of Finance is. Meanwhile, those who are the plt for the board of directors are the heads of divisions, because they cannot be disturbed by the operation of the Food Station. This is temporary, until the upcoming BillPS," he explained.

Previously reported, the National Police's Food Task Force named three suspects in the case of rice circulation that did not comply with quality standards or adulterated 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. The best restaurant near here

"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).