Admitting There Is Scarcity In The Market, KUKMP Sub-Department Finally Sees Thousands Of Cartons Of Cooking Oil In The Pulogadung Area

Thousands of cardboard boxes filled with cooking oil at a processing factory in the Pulogadung Industrial area, East Jakarta/ Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

JAKARTA - Head of the East Jakarta Cooperative, Small and Medium Enterprises and Trade (KUKMP) Sub-Department, Parulian admitted that there was a shortage of cooking oil stocks in the markets of the East Jakarta area.

"If the conditions in the field are indeed out of stock. If it is handed over to the field (from distributors) the community will immediately attack," he told VOI during a sudden inspection (sidak) at a cooking oil processing plant, at PT MGG, Pulogadung Industrial area, Cakung District, Jakarta. East, Tuesday 15 March.

said the Head of the East Jakarta Cooperative, Small and Medium Enterprises and Trade (KUKMP) Sub-Department, Parulian at the inspection site/ Photo: Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

After checking the two packaged cooking oil processing factories, the KUKMP Sub-dept. together with the Special Criminal Investigation Unit (Satreskrim) of the East Jakarta Metro Police saw a large stock of packaged cooking oil. Even reaching thousands of boxes.

The factory management said that it will sell when there are orders or purchases in large quantities from retail companies.

"We check from the production center to the distributor. What we saw earlier, we only saw their data on how the flow (distribution of cooking oil) is in this warehouse, information from them is waiting from the customer," he said.

Parulian ensured that the KUKMP only accompanied the East Jakarta Metro Police in accordance with the direction of the Minister of Trade and the National Police Chief regarding cooking oil.

"This inspection is based on people's complaints that in the field or market the stock (of cooking oil) is running out," he said.