Coordinating Minister For Food Zulhas Ensures No More Rice Imports

Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs (Menko Pangan) Zulkifli Hasan. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs (Menko Pangan) Zulkifli Hasan ensured that there would be no new imports for rice this year. He said, the import quota that is currently being completed is 3.6 million tons.

The man who is familiarly called Zulhas said that out of a total quota of 3.6 million tons, 1 million tons remained. He said Bulog had only completed 150,000 tons.

"Yes, that's the total. Of the 3.6 million tons, less than 1 million tons, 150,000 tons will be entered, only (the remaining) 850,000 tons," he said at the Bulog Jakarta Warehouse, Sunter, North Jakarta, Monday, November 4.

"Yesterday we got the G2G fast, right, but the G2G couldn't do it with India. In the end, the Indian process was still going to be business as usual," he continued.

According to Zulhas, the remaining import quotas will be completed by the end of this year. He said that even though everything has been entered, our stock will be higher.

If it can be completed this year, 850,000 can enter all of them. It means that our stock will be much more, more ready, stronger. And I think under the President Director (Bulog), this is the strongest stock so far, the best, the best," he explained.

For your information, the government has assigned Perum Bulog to have a stock until the end of the year of 2 million tons. Currently, the stock controlled by Bulog is at 1.6 million tons.

President Director of Perum Bulog Wahyu Suparyono said the stock was safe enough to meet national needs by the end of this year.

By the end of the year (it was confirmed that the rice stock) was 2 million tons. But currently not completely 2 million tons. Currently, it is still 1.6 million tons, very much more than enough until the end of this year," said Wahyu.