Head Of Badanas: Burmrage Bulog Rice Is Ordinary

Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas) Arief Prasetyo Adi. (Photo: Doc. Badanas)

JAKARTA - Head of the National Food Agency (NFA) Arief Prasetyo Adi explained that demurrage in Bulog rice. He said demurrage is a common thing in export-import activities.

For your information, demargge is a fine imposed by shipping agents on ship tenants. The fine is imposed because the ship is leaning beyond the time limit given to carry out loading and unloading.

Furthermore, Arief said there are several factors that can cause delays in loading and unloading and that is common, so that business to business (B2B) can be taken into account.

"Demurrage is a normal thing. It's just a matter of looking at it, whether it's because of rain, it was supposed to be 6 days, so it could take 7 or 8 days. That's a normal thing in business to business as usual," said Arief in an official statement, Friday, June 21.

Similarly, the President Director of Perum Bulog Bayu Krisnamurthi explained that demurrage is a fee that arises due to delays in loading and unloading at the port. He also said that demurrage is a common thing.

This is a normal thing. So for example, it is scheduled to (load up) 5 days, so 7 days. Maybe it's because it's raining, maybe because the port is full and so on," he said.

Bayu also explained that this demurrage is part of the costs that must be taken into account in export and import activities.

"So the existence of a demurrage fee is something that can be said to be part of the logical consequences of import export activities," he said.

Bayu also emphasized that Perum Bulog always strives to minimize the cost of demurrage. He said he did not know how much demurrage costs were charged to Bulog because it was still in the process of being counted.

Furthermore, Bayu also said that his party would negotiate related to this demurrage. For example, which ones can be covered in insurance, which ones are not, and which ones are responsible for shipping.

Our demurrage fee is still calculated and we are still negotiating. So the final figure has not been completed, but the estimate is that when compared to the value of imported products, maybe God willing, it will not be more than 3 percent," said Bayu.