JAKARTA – A number of traders in traditional and modern markets are still complaining about the scarcity of bulk and packaged cooking oil. As experienced by Ginting, a trader at Klender Market, East Jakarta, who admitted that he had difficulty getting cooking oil stocks recently.
Ginting said he was still having trouble getting cooking oil stocks from agents. He also has not been able to sell cooking oil according to the highest retail price that has been set.
"Bulk oil costs Rp. 13,000 from there, we sell Rp. 15 thousand per kilo. For packaged cooking oil, Rp. 16 thousand per liter. The price from there is Rp. 15 thousand," said Ginting, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, February 15.
Ginting said, many buyers did not get bulk or packaged cooking oil, due to the limited availability of goods.
"There are a lot of buyers, but the goods are not available. Sometimes if there are no subsidies, they are not bought," said Ginting.
Another cooking oil trader, Surbakti, said that he had never received subsidized cooking oil from the government. "The goods have never arrived here. Maybe it has arrived at the market, only a few have arrived, so it seems as if they are there," said Srubakti.
Previously, the Minister of Trade Muhammad Lutfi issued a Regulation of the Minister of Trade regarding the provision for the highest retail price (HET) for cooking oil.
The HET is regulated in the Minister of Trade Regulation No. 6 of 2022, namely bulk cooking oil of IDR 11,500 per liter, simple packaged cooking oil of IDR 13,500 per liter and premium packaged cooking oil of IDR 14,000 per liter.
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