JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo announced the reopening of export permits for palm oil, cooking oil and crude palm oil (CPO) products starting Monday, May 23, next.
Member of Commission VII of the DPR PKS faction, Mulyanto, admitted that he was not surprised by the government's fickle attitude regarding the policy. The reason is, he had predicted the cancellation of the policy, which was only three weeks old, because there would be no significant impact.
"Policies that state this has often been taken by the government, so it is not surprising that the public's assessment will be increasingly negative with the performance of this President," said Mulyanto to reporters, Friday, May 20.
From the start, the PKS politician was not sure that the government would be able to maintain this policy of banning the export of CPO and its derivatives. Because according to him, the policy was taken reactively, compassionately, not prudent and far from a research based policy approach.
"I feel brave and brave to face the mafia, but in the end it shrinks, licking its own saliva," he explained.
In fact, continued Mulyanto, every policy must have a trade-off side. In the case of migration, it is between producers, oil palm farmers and consumers.
"There should be risk mitigation and incentives for those affected," he said.
"From this case, people understand more and more how strong the lobbies for migrant entrepreneurs are. So it is reasonable to say that in this strong policy struggle, the government is submissive to the migrant mafia," added Mulyanto.
Previously reported, President Jokowi announced the reopening of the ban on exports of palm oil products, including cooking oil and crude palm oil (CPO).
Previously, President Jokowi officially banned the export of cooking oil and its derivative raw materials, including CPO, starting Thursday, April 28, 2022.
Since the cooking oil export ban policy, the supply of cooking oil has continued to increase in the field based on field observations due to the export ban policy. In addition, there was a decline in the national average cooking oil price.
"Based on the current supply and price of cooking oil, and considering the 17 million workers in the palm oil industry, farmers and workers and other supporting staff, I have decided that cooking oil exports will reopen on Monday, May 23, 2022," said Jokowi.
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