Perum Bulog Unused Warehouse Turned Into A Business Center To Various Types Of Sports

Photo: Doc. Antara

JAKARTA - Perum Bulog has transformed unused warehouse assets, especially in the South Jakarta area, into business centers to various types of sports, as a step to optimize assets and part of the transformation of one of the SOEs in the food sector.

"Alhamdulillah, Bulog and other SOEs have been ordered to optimize their assets, and now we can take advantage of this better," said Bulog Bayu President Director Krisnamurthi at the launch of DGAT55 Mini Boss Food Perum Bulog in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Monday 27 May.

Bayu revealed that Bulog has 10 thousand asset points throughout Indonesia. However, what can be optimized is more than 3,000 because some of the buildings have been damaged. These assets are in the form of warehouses to grain drying sites.

He explained that many assets are currently not optimal, not because his party is unable to optimize, but because of changes in the times, making these assets unable to be utilized properly.

Bulog, said Bayu, was 57 years old so that some of its assets were developed or held more than half a century ago. So that the development of the city, the development of the region makes its designation no longer in accordance with the original idea.

The example is clear where we are today. This used to be imagined as a warehouse, a warehouse for Bulog's stock. But now it is very difficult for us to bring in and out of stock, in and out of Bulog goods, in and out of rice, corn or soybeans because according to the city administration is no longer intended for this function. So that in the end we can't take advantage of it," said Bayu.

Therefore, as a form of transformation, Perum Bulog turned an unused warehouse on Jalan Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta, into a shopping and sports business area called d'GAT55.

"But this will indeed become Bulog's new icon here because of a very strategic place problem, then its direct use is something that we can really take advantage of directly," said Bayu.

In this area, there are mini markets and sports fields ranging from basketball, futsal to badminton fields that can be used by the general public.

"This location, if he mentioned the district business Bulog, how come I imagine this Bulog food and life style center or food and life style area or food and life discipline if you want to be called a district," said Bayu.

Bayu said that his party had changed the former Bulog warehouse on Jalan Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta in accordance with government directives through the Ministry of SOEs so that they could optimally utilize state-owned assets.

Bulog's business base is food, and food is now not just to meet needs. Most of the Indonesian people now food is part of life style. So, the term is sunbathing, moving, having fun. It's part of a life style that many people want," said Bayu.

Bayu added that optimizing the unused Bulog warehouse has also been carried out in the Kelapa Gading area, North Jakarta, and several other areas in Indonesia such as the cities of Makassar, Surabaya, and Semarang.

"Compared to the total value of Bulog's business, it may still be small but the day is getting bigger and the potential going forward is much greater than the current one. This is very potential and prospective, now it's still small, frankly, from the perspective of Bulog's existing turnover but in the future, I'm sure this is much bigger," added Bayu.