JAKARTA - The Minister of Trade (Mendag) Budi Santoso denied the practice of repackaging from simple packaged cooking oil for the Minita brand to bulk cooking oil.
For your information, the issue of the practice of repackaging Oil into bulk oil has surfaced because the price of simple packaged cooking oil has not decreased.
"No, there is no (repackaging practice)," he said when met at the Ministry of Trade Office, Jakarta, Thursday, February 20.
Budi said the Ministry of Trade also continues to monitor and control the violations of the sale of Oilita.
Currently, continued Budi, the price of Oilita has slowly started to fall. He said that the commodity price can also be monitored through the Market Monitoring System and Basic Needs (SP2KP).
"Yes, it's done, everything has been deposited. We have ordered everything. Right, we have SP2KP, yes, every day we monitor it by the service. So which point is expensive, we know," he said.
Even so, Budi admitted that the price of Oilita in eastern Indonesia is still expensive. However, this price has gradually decreased.
The price of Oilita in eastern Indonesia is at IDR 17,300 per liter.
Meanwhile, the government has set the highest retail price (HET) for Oilita at IDR 15,700 per liter. The HET applies to all regions in Indonesia.
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Budi admitted that he had asked BUMN Food, in this case Perum Bulog and also ID FOOD, to distribute Oilita to eastern Indonesia so that prices could return to normal.
"So the red one, we also ask for help from Bulog and ID FOOD. So, the producer already wants to help. It's starting now," he said.
With the assistance of distribution from Bulog and ID FOOD, Budi hopes that the price of Oilita can fall before Ramadan 2025.
"Yes, hopefully it will come down soon. Yes, before Ramadan, it must be done as soon as possible," he said.
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