The Price Has Gone Up But The Purchase Of Cooking Oil In Bengkulu Is Still Limited Due To Limited Stock

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JAKARTA - This is still a story about cooking oil that is not normal. In Bengkulu, the purchase of cooking oil at modern retail is still limited even though the price has reached IDR 24 thousand to IDR 26 thousand per liter.

Bengkulu Hypermart Store Manager, Lukman Hamli, Tuesday, March 22, said that his party had not yet received a certainty about the amount of cooking oil supply from the distributor.

"Until now, we haven't gotten the exact amount of supply from distributors," Lukman said as quoted by Antara.

The purchase restriction is also to anticipate a shortage of cooking oil stocks.

Although many buyers complained about the regulation, his party continued to limit the purchase of cooking oil to two liters per person.

One of the buyers of cooking oil at modern retail, Eri, expressed his objection to the revocation of the HET for cooking oil of IDR 14 thousand per liter.

"Although it is expensive and the purchase must be limited, I still have to buy cooking oil because it is a household need," he said.

In addition to cooking oil, modern retailers also limit the purchase of packaged sugar for one person to two kilograms each, because in recent days the price of granulated sugar has increased.

The price of cooking oil in the Panorama market and the Sunday market in Bengkulu City reached IDR 35.000 per liter after the government revoked the policy for cooking oil at a price of IDR 14.000 per liter.