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JAKARTA - A basic food trader at Pasar Mandiri, Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, Ida (37) said that consumers have difficulty buying bulk cooking oil because the government implements the "Pedulilindungi" application.

"It's really difficult (using the app) in Jakarta," said Ida at the Mandiri Market, North Jakarta, Wednesday, June 29.

Ida said that he received subsidized bulk cooking oil in the form of jerry cans offered by retailer Indomarco with a selling price of Rp. 14,000 thousand to Rp. 15,500 per kilogram. Per day, Ida gets about five to ten jerrycans of cooking oil per day.

According to Ida, one person is only allowed to buy 10 liters of bulk cooking oil per day. Currently, buyers in their stalls can buy bulk cooking oil by showing their KTP, then taking a photo of the buyer's NIK as a report to Indomarco.

When photographing the NIK, Ida said that he also had reservations, because the device he had was not sufficient, so he had problems taking pictures.

In line with Ida, a buyer Andy (42) admitted that he would find it difficult if he later bought bulk cooking oil with the PeduliLindung application. Because the device he has sometimes has problems.

Andy also admitted that buying bulk cooking oil in the market with an ID card had made him nervous, for fear of being misused.

"We don't know what (NIK KTP) he is doing," he said

Even so, Ida and Andy hope that in the future sales of bulk cooking oil will no longer need to use ID cards or the PeduliLindung application.

Previously, Acting Deputy for Infrastructure and Transportation Coordination of the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Marves), Rachmat Kaimuddin, said buying bulk cooking oil using the PeduliLindung application was not to make it difficult for the community.

According to Rachmat, the use of PeduliLindung was chosen because it is one of the most mature and familiar applications used by the public in the last two years.

"At that time, we saw that now we have mature technology, namely PeduliLindungi, which has been used by 90 million Indonesians and every user must have been checked, the NIK has been verified," he said in a virtual press conference, Tuesday, June 28.

Rachmat assessed that the use of KTP to buy bulk cooking oil has many shortcomings, ranging from validity to not being properly traceable if it has been used previously.

This condition makes the use of KTP which was previously proposed as a condition to buy cooking oil is prone to fraud.