To Prevent Cooking Oil From Becoming Scarce Again, KPK Warns That Improvements In Raw Material Management Need To Be Carried Out

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has reminded that the management of raw materials for cooking oil or crude palm oil (CPO) and its derivatives will be corrected immediately. This step is important to prevent the occurrence of scarcity of cooking oil in the community.

"KPK views that the scarcity of strategic commodities in the country such as cooking oil in the future must be prevented," said Acting Spokesperson for the KPK for Prevention Ipi Maryati in a written statement, Tuesday, April 26.

This improvement, he continued, could be done by integrating business processes from upstream to downstream through the National Commodity Balance System (SNANK).

In addition, the KPK also invited the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri), KemenPAN RI, Bappenas, and the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) to encourage continuous improvements in CPO governance. This step is important because integrating technology-based data requires support from many parties.

"So this database can identify the shortage or excess of domestic production. Hopefully, export and import permits are issued according to need and price stability and availability of goods in the domestic market can be maintained," he explained.

Not only that, Ipi said, SNANK also encourages strengthening the implementation of the Domestic Market Obligation (DMO) and Domestic Price Obligation (DPO) policies for CPO derivative products, namely cooking oil, optimizing income tax revenues from related business actors, to strengthening the implementation of fund collections. palm.

Meanwhile, the recommendation regarding the SNANK was conveyed by the National Secretariat of National Stranas PK to Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto through a letter on 17 March.

A similar proposal was also submitted on March 9 directly to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, the Minister of Trade, the Minister of Agriculture, and the Minister of Industry. This step is the focus of the Stranas PK action in the field of improving licensing and trade administration.

"KPK hopes that this recommendation can be followed up to improve the strategic commodity trading system in line with Presidential Regulation Number 31 of 2022 concerning Commodity Balance," concluded Ipi.