Buy Cooking Oil Using Care To Protect, Coordinating Minister Luhut's Subordinates: We Have No Intention Of Making It Difficult For The Community

Illustration of bulk cooking oil, (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Acting Deputy for Infrastructure and Transportation Coordination of the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Marves), Rachmat Kaimuddin said buying bulk cooking oil using the PeduliLindung application is not to make it difficult for the community.

According to Rachmat, the use of PeduliLindung was chosen because it is one of the most mature and familiar applications used by the public in the last two years.

"At that time, we saw that now we have mature technology, namely PeduliLindungi, which has been used by 90 million Indonesians and every user must have been checked, the NIK has been verified," he said in a virtual press conference, Tuesday, June 28.

Rachmat assessed that the use of KTP to buy bulk cooking oil has many shortcomings, ranging from validity to not being properly traceable if it has been used previously.

This condition makes the use of KTP which was previously proposed as a condition to buy cooking oil is prone to fraud.

"If the ID card can be a fake ID card. If you check with the Disdukcapil, verification is difficult, if PeduliLindung has been verified, we know that there are humans," he said.

Rachmat said that the application, which was originally used for tracking COVID-19, could store several NIK.

The application is also considered to be very familiar to the public, so it is hoped that its use to buy bulk cooking oil will make it easier for buyers.

"Hopefully the process isn't difficult. So retailers just plug in the QR Code, later the buyer can scan. If it's green, you can buy it right away, but if it's red, maybe that day's quota has already been used. Please come again tomorrow, or if you really need it, that day Look for friends who haven't used their quota because 10 kg is too much for daily needs," he said.

Rachmat said that with PeduliLindungi, the government can obtain data regarding the number of users/buyers to locations so that the allocation can be better regulated.

"We have no intention of making it difficult or making it complicated (the community), but we are looking for a solution that we think has often been used, but we also want to have control because this item is not unlimited," he said.

The government limits the purchase of bulk cooking oil for the people (MGCR) as much as 10 kg per NIK per day, or a total of 300,000 tons per month or the equivalent of 330 million liters per month.

This amount is much higher than the need for cooking oil per capita per Indonesian, which is only about 1 liter per month.

"So this is 330 times more than the average need. We hope that, because we are targeting end users, this quota should be very sufficient," said Rachmat.