Beef Prices Soar, Food Bandan Asks For Fast Imports

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JAKARTA - The price of beef has soared recently. The increase in prices has attracted the attention of traders and the government. Moreover, it is predicted that price increases will still occur.

To ensure supply and price stabilization, the National Food Agency (BPN) or the National Food Agency (NFA) requested an acceleration of beef imports.

In order to welcome the need for beef ahead of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, NFA also directly held a follow-up Coordination Meeting with the SOE Food Holding ID FOOD, business actors of meat importers and distributors, Chairman of the Indonesian Meat Traders Association (APDI), General Chairperson of the DPP Cutters and Traders Network. Indonesian meat.

Head of NFA, Arief Prasetyo Adi, said that he would encourage SOEs to accelerate the entry of national stock meat reserves to overcome the problem of meat during the month of Ramadan until Eid al-Fitr.

In addition, Arief explained that the NFA will also create a scenario for mobilizing beef potential, preparing a distribution pattern for both beef and beef.

"I hope that BUMN will also carry out market operations, how will the price of beef reach the end customer," he said in an official statement, Wednesday, March 2.

Arief assessed that in the future Indonesia must have a stock of meat, and this stock can meet the needs of the community. Related parties, including BPN, will calculate their needs every month to be followed up by SOEs through cold rooms or cold storage of meat.

"This is one of the solutions for stabilizing meat prices in the following year. This needs to be changed, improved, so that there are no repeated incidents every year," he said.

"My homework is to speed up assignments to SOEs, besides that, to accelerate good prices to distributors and traders," he continued.

In addition, as a follow-up to efforts to stabilize meat prices, after a meeting with a number of traders in the field, Head of NFA Arief Prasetyo Adi also attended a coordination meeting with the Presidential Chief of Staff, Ministry of SOEs, Ministry of Trade, Coordinating Ministry for the Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, Association of Beef Cattle Entrepreneurs (GAPUSPINDO). ) and its state-owned subsidiary PT Berdikari on Monday, March 1, 2022.

Previously, the Presidential Chief of Staff, Moeldoko said that the Head of the National Food Agency could immediately follow up on the beef issue, besides that it was necessary to control meat commodities every month.