Police Urge The Public Not To Buy Cooking Oil

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YOGYAKARTA - The Gunung Kidul Resort Police, Yogyakarta Special Region, asked the public not to buy cooking oil to anticipate rising prices and shortages of goods.

The Head of Criminal Investigation at the Gunung Kidul Police, AKP Mahardian Dewa, said that the vacancy of packaged cooking oil at the level of traders from people's markets to shops caused people to take wholesale action.

"Based on supervision at the distributor level, cooking oil has been distributed to the public. However, there has been a wholesale action by the community which has caused a shortage of cooking oil in the community," said Mahardian Negara in Gunung Kidul, Thursday, March 17.

He ensured that there was no hoarding of people at the level of distributors or retailers of cooking oil. This is based on the report of the Gunung Kidul Police Food Task Force from the results of field supervision.

"According to the instructions, we are monitoring packaged cooking oil to a number of distributors. Based on the monitoring results, the supply of packaged cooking oil at the distributors is relatively safe. It is even sufficient for the needs of Gunung Kidul Regency," he said.

Regarding the empty packaging of cooking oil in shops and markets, Mahardian assessed that this phenomenon was more likely due to wholesale action by the community. Meanwhile, distributors have distributed packaged cooking oil to the market.

"It's more because of wholesale action, so people don't buy cooking oil in the right amount," he said. Currently, the Gunung Kidul Police are still paying attention to people's markets, network stores, and distributors.

"Don't let any parties or speculators play with cooking oil supplies," he said.