Calling Cooking Oil Entrepreneurs, Coordinating Minister Luhut: No Lies Between Us

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Bisar Panjaitan summoned and gathered cooking oil entrepreneurs in Bali.

The goal is to fix the governance of cooking oil which is considered chaotic.

"Today and tomorrow I gather all big businessmen and actors and associations in Bali, we want to make a match, a matching business," he said at the DPR Budget Board Meeting, Thursday, June 9.

Luhut said, with the meeting, it can be seen the policies issued by the government and those carried out by entrepreneurs.

Because, Luhut assessed, there are policy inconsistencies that make the issue of cooking oil a polemic in the country.

"So what did the government do, what did you guys do, what was appropriate, what didn't fit. So that there should be no lies between us. Because I see from that the damage that has been going on for the past five months, our inconsistency. I don't want to be regulated by anyone. But I listen," he said.

In addition, Luhut also said that his party would change the digital-based cooking oil industry business system.

Therefore, the government will audit all oil palm plantation land areas, the amount of production to exports of each company.

"With our audit, we know exactly how much land this Polan has, how much is his production or yield, how much does he export per day, how much does he sell per day at what price. Because the prices are different," he said.

According to Luhut, this step was taken to ensure that the state's income from the cooking oil industry is measurable. It also prevents leakage.

"That way state revenue will increase. And the amount in this industry must match the data from the Ministry of Trade, Industry to customs. So the price of that amount must match and if that happens, I think state revenues will be in billions of dollars. we add from there," he explained.

Luhut will also limit the ownership of oil palm plantations and cooking oil producing companies.

He admitted that he was not willing if parties outside the country actually made a profit at home.

"We will limit people who have no or excessive ownership and then we will also limit people who live abroad from enjoying, having hundreds of thousands of hectares of property in this Republic. I don't think we agree with that kind of thing," he said. .