The Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) ensures that the confiscated simple packaged cooking oil with the Minita brand, which is not suitable, will be resold in bulk cooking oil.
For your information, the Ministry of Trade has sealed the Oilita repackaging plant, PT Artha Eka Global Asia (AEGA), located in Karawang, West Java. The company was caught reducing volume doses, aka not according to the dose.
The Director General of Consumer Protection and Trade Order (PKTN) of the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) Moga Simatupang said that oil confiscated from the company that was recorded to reduce the volume of oil content would be resold in bulk cooking oil. Including the confiscated results from PT AEGA.
"Later it will be withdrawn, later it can be sold in what form of bulk other brands. Prices are not regulated in Permendag 18," he said when met in Karawang, West Java, Thursday, March 13.
Even so, Moga did not explain further which party would receive the money from the sale of the oil.
Similarly, the Head of the Food Task Force Helfi Assegaf explained that traders who get the supply of Oilita that is not in accordance with the dose from distributors can sell it in bulk cooking oil.
Helfi emphasized that Oilita should not be sold in less than 1 liter. Therefore, traders who have already bought and become stock in the market can sell in bulk without the Minita brand.
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"Yes, so yesterday I said please sell it in bulk cooking oil. But, you can't use packaging," said Helfi.
According to Helfi, this decision is a solution for traders who have already bought and knocked the Oilita but do not comply with the volume rules of the contents set, namely 1 liter.
Furthermore, Helfi admitted that he had also conveyed this to traders in the market.
"It's a risk (a trader who has already bought), the solution is only that (to be resold in bulk oil). The bulk oil is Rp. 16,000 per liter, the Oil is Rp. 15,700 per liter according to HET," explained Helfi.
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