Gerindra: Ban On Sales Of Bulk Cooking Oil Becomes A Burden For MSMEs

Secretary General of Gerindra Ahmad Muzani/DOK ANTARA

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Gerindra Party faction of the DPR Ahmad Muzani assessed that the Ministry of Trade's policy to prohibit the sale of bulk cooking oil will burden traders in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector. 36 of 2020 concerning Mandatory Packaged Palm Cooking Oil. caused by the COVID-19 pandemic," Muzani said in a written statement quoted by Antara, Friday, November 26. Muzani said the people's economic sector such as fried food traders, warteg, padang stalls, chicken pecel, catfish pecel were users of bulk cooking oil as their production base. , the ban on the sale of bulk cooking oil will be a problem in itself This prohibition will increase production costs due to the shift from bulk cooking oil to packaged cooking oil, which is more expensive than bulk cooking oil. The difference in price is around IDR 5,000 per liter, this will affect people's purchasing power," he said.

The Secretary General of the Gerindra Party assessed that the policy of prohibiting the sale of bulk cooking oil was not in line with the government's spirit in efforts to recover the national economy. there is 'political will', but on the other hand there are policies that actually impose new costs and burdens for MSMEs, such as 'Yoyo'," he said. Number 36 of 2020 concerning Palm Cooking Oil Mandatory Packaging. The policy was carried out to anticipate a price spike in cooking oil commodities. The Director General of Domestic Trade at the Ministry of Trade, Oke Nurwan, said the ban was because cooking oil prices depended heavily on Crude Palm Oil (CPO). bulk frying oil circulating in the market, so to anticipate this, the government decided to prohibit the sale of bulk cooking oil and must use packaged cooking oil.