Bantul Reports Scarcity Of Cooking Oil In Traditional Markets To The Central Government

Head of the SME Cooperatives, Industry and Trade Office of Bantul Regency, DIY Agus Sulistiyana (Photo Antara/Hery Sidik)

BANTUL - The Department of Cooperatives, Small and Medium Enterprises, Industry and Trade of Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, has reported the scarcity of cooking oil stocks in traditional markets to the central government for follow-up.

"So yesterday we just carried out monitoring at the markets, in traditional markets there are indeed some shortages in traders including vacancies in distributors," said Head of the Bantul Cooperative, SME, Industry and Trade Office, Agus Sulistiyana, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, February 23. .

Therefore, he said, the results of the monitoring of the cooking oil stock were reported to the central government through the DIY Regional Government (Pemda).

"We hope that there will be a follow-up, because I heard that cooking oil will be disbursed in the near future to the regions, but the distribution is indeed through modern markets, network markets," he said.

Agus said that the scarcity of cooking oil in traditional markets does not mean that there are no goods at all, but that they are limited, but the price of cooking oil varies, unlike the price set by the government at Rp. 14 thousand per liter.

"This price is still varying now because traders have old stock merchandise, so when the old stock runs out, I hope to use new stock and the price is the price set by the government at Rp. 14 thousand," he said.

He said that his party proposed that cooking oil be disbursed to the regions, because the information received by the program from the central government regarding cooking oil was already available, but the regency government did not know the schedule yet.

"In DIY, last February 16, it was dropped in Wates, Kulon Progo, while in Bantul last February 14, the number for us was only 22 tons liters for the Bantul quota," he said.

Agus said that the condition of scarcity in the market and even the vacancy of cooking oil at the distributor did not only occur in Bantul, but in various other areas, so that all felt.

"And now in Bantul the goods are no longer available, this is indeed national, not only in Bantul. We hope that in the community there will be no 'panic buying', because this is very influential when people then spend outside the normal limit," he said.