ID Food Distributes 62.5 Million Liters Of Cooking Oil Through Traditional Markets And Digital Platforms

Food stall digital application used by ID Food for distribution of cooking oil throughout Indonesia. (Between)

JAKARTA - Holding of the State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Food ID FOOD during the first semester of 2022 recorded the distribution of cooking oil as much as 62.5 million liters. The distribution is carried out throughout Indonesia from Aceh to Papua.

President Director of Food Holding ID FOOD, Frans Marganda Tambunan said ID FOOD continues to be committed to maintaining the availability of cooking oil commodities through distribution throughout Indonesia.

"Until the first semester of 2022, ID FOOD has recorded the distribution of 62.5 million liters of cooking oil from Aceh to Papua," he said in an official statement, Saturday, July 23.

Frans explained that ID FOOD through the Holding Member of PT Indonesia Trading Company was appointed by the Government through the Ministry of Trade as PUJLE (Retail Logistics and Service Business Actors) to distribute people's bulk cooking oil.

In addition to distributing cooking oil through traditional market traders, Frans said distribution through the digital platform of Warung Pangan, a synergy of the Ministry of Trade and the digital application SIMIRAH2 (Bulk Cooking Oil Information System) that was synergized by the Ministry of Industry until July 23, 2022, has distributed 2.575.527 liters.

"According to daily data until July 23, 2022 specifically through the Warung Pangan platform, ID FOOD has distributed cooking oil to 19 provinces, 98 cities, 569 sub-districts and 1.108 urban villages," he explained.

Based on ID FOOD data, the largest distribution of cooking oil is in East Java with a total of 13,164,197 liters. Then, North Sumatra 7.992.094 liters. Then, Lampung with 6,621,986 liters. Next, West Java with a total of 6,522,985 liters. Followed by DKI Jakarta with 4.888.427 liters.

Then, Central Java with 4.257.758 liters. Then, West Sumatra 2.670.053 liters; South Sumatra 2.785.211 liters; Aceh distributed 2.590.152 liters; East Kalimantan 2.387.328 liters; Riau 2.228.772 liters; South Sulawesi 1.613.946; Banten 1.496.226 liters; and DI Yogyakarta 568.390 liters.

Furthermore, Bali 428.640 liters, Bengkulu 415.964 liters; East Nusa Tenggara 348.441 liters; Central Sulawesi 336.420 liters; South Kalimantan 312.360 liters; West Sulawesi 210.000 liters; North Sulawesi 163.933 liters; Central Kalimantan 91.289 liters; Kep. Bangka Belitung 82.133 liters; Southeast Sulawesi 22.585 liters; North Kalimantan 18.889 liters; and West Nusa Tenggara 14.844 liters.

Meanwhile, Papua, West Kalimantan, and West Papua receive the least distribution of bulk cooking oil. Respectively, 840 liters, 3.236 liters, and 13.200 liters.