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Illustration of bulk cooking oil being sold in a traditional market. (Between)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the PKS Fraction at the DPR, Mulyanto, rejected the government's plan to require the use of the PeduliLindung application to buy cooking oil (migor). According to him, this policy only adds to the burden on the community in the midst of high commodity prices. Mulyanto said that the users of bulk cooking oil are small people and micro businesses. Where are they, he said, less familiar with smartphone technology which, if forced, will complicate their economic activities.

"Today, the government must be really careful in making policy options for the people. Do not apply policies that make it difficult for the people," Mulyanto told reporters on Monday, June 27. distribution. However, due to a surge in consumption. Therefore, Mulyanto asked the government to focus on solving the root problem, not creating policies that have the potential to cause new problems.

"So the government should not change the bulk cooking oil trading policy by trial by error, aka trial and error, but it doesn't solve the problem," said the member of Commission VII DPR.

According to Mulyanto, an important and urgent policy for the government now is to flood the market with sufficient bulk cooking oil at prices according to HET (highest retail price).

He said the current condition was in fact very strange and paradoxical. This is because on the one hand, CPO stocks are said to be abundant in storage tanks, and the price of smallholder FFB has fallen to close to Rp 500 per kilogram. But on the other hand, there is still a scarcity of bulk migration and prices are well above the HET.

"It means that something is wrong at the producer and distributor level of bulk migrants," said Mulyanto. It is known, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said, starting Monday, June 27, the government will socialize the purchase of people's bulk cooking oil (MGCR) using the PeduliLindung application for the next 2 weeks.

According to Luhut, the use of the PeduliLindung application is an effort by the government to overcome the cooking oil disputes that have occurred, ranging from stock shortages to soaring oil prices.

"The government is making efforts to change this system to provide certainty of the availability and affordability of cooking oil prices for all levels of society. The use of PeduliLindungi functions as a monitoring and supervision tool in the field, to mitigate potential fraud that can lead to scarcity and an increase in cooking oil prices," he said. Luhut on his personal Instagram account, @luhut.pandjaitan, Saturday, June 25.