Entrepreneurs In Mataram Become Suspects Of Selling Minya Kita Not In Accordance With The Takaran

Mataram Police Chief Kombes Hendro Purwoko (central) showed evidence of the case of repackaging and the circulation of Minya Kita/ANTARA PHOTO/Dhimas Budi Pratama/sgd/nz cooking oil)

MATARAM - A businessman in Mataram City, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), was revealed to have repackaged and circulated Minya Kita's cooking oil with contents that did not match the dose on the packaging label.

Mataram Police Chief Kombes Hendro Purwoko said the case was revealed based on the results of measurements of the contents of the measurement using metrology tools from the NTB Trade Office.

"So, the contents of 2 liter and 5 liters of cooking oil from the MinyaKita brand produced by CV Putra Jaya Kencana were found not in accordance with the size included in the packaging label," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 16.

The filling of the dose in the 2 liter plastic packaging, from the measurement results, only reached 1.6 liters. Then, cooking oil in 5 liter jerry cans only reached 4.1 liter.

For the follow-up to this disclosure, the entrepreneur or owner of CV Putra Jaya Kencana with the initials INPA has now been named a suspect.

The police named INPA as a suspect by applying the suspicion of Article 62 paragraph (1) of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection.

The police have followed up on this case by tracing the marketing area of the suspect company's products starting in early 2025.

In its circulation in the Lombok area, the police have confiscated part of the CV Putra Jaya Kencana marketing place and warehouse with a total of 586 2 liter plastic packages and 6 jerry cans for 5 liter packaging.

As an effort to prevent repeated acts, the police confiscated by installing police lines on packaging equipment in warehouses belonging to INPA entrepreneurs whose addresses are at Jalan Tani, Babakan Kebon neighborhood, Sandubaya District, Mataram City.