PDIP Will Tell Cooking Recipes Without Oil Through Today's Cooking Demo

PDI-P Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - PDI Perjuangan (PDIP) will hold a cooking demonstration without using cooking oil today, Monday, March 28. The plan, this activity will be opened by the Chairperson of the PDIP Megawati Soekarnoputri.

"(Today) at the DPP Lenteng Agung at the party school, Mrs. Mega opens at 13.30," said PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto to reporters quoted on Monday, March 28.

Later, a number of officials will also attend this activity including the Head of the National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) Hasto Wardoyo, Deputy Mayor of Semarang Hevearita G. Rahayu, and a number of officials in the PDIP DPP. Not only that, but this activity will also be attended by cooks and nutritionists.

This cooking demonstration was conducted to show various ways of managing food without having to fry it. In addition, Hasto said, PDIP will also show how to make coconut oil which can be an alternative for frying food.

"We hold and present a famous chef how to diversify food without frying. So there are boiled and steamed. We will also show off local treasures, how to make cooking oil from coconut," he said.

As previously reported, Megawati Soekarnoputri admitted that she was surprised why there were still women who chose to queue for cooking oil. Even though there are various alternative ways to cook in the midst of scarcity and rising prices that have occurred recently.

"Now, let's see, the fuss is about buying cooking oil. it is unbelievable, it's not a matter of not having cooking oil or how expensive it is," said Megawati in a stunting-related webinar broadcast on YouTube, Thursday, March 17.

"It made me think, so every day the mothers only fry? Until it's so scrambled, is there no way to boil, then steam or like rujak?" he asked.

He said that this method of cooking can actually be used in various Indonesian menus which can be used as references.

"Isn't there (another way of cooking, ed)? It's an Indonesian menu, you know. Why is it complicated (difficult, ed)," said the 5th President of the Republic of Indonesia.

The statement was then responded to by a number of parties, one of which was the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) politician Mardani Ali Sera. He said that boiling food, as Megawati said, could indeed be an alternative way of cooking.

However, the problem of scarcity of cooking oil must be seen widely. Moreover, cooking oil is a people's need that should be available at affordable prices without the need to queue.

"The boiled chapter (food, ed) is good for health but the problem is not in health and how to manage food. This is the right of citizens to obtain their necessities of life at an affordable price," Mardani told reporters quoted on Saturday, March 19.

By lining up for women for cooking oil, Mardani considered, the government had failed to ensure the necessities of life for many people.

"The state failed to realize it. Promises are just promises," he said.