PolNTIANAK - Member of the Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) of Pontianak City, Zulfydar Zaidar Mochtar, agrees that if people want to buy cooking oil with the MinyaKita brand, they must show an identity card in the form of an Identity Card (KTP) to prevent hoarding by certain parties.
"MinyaKitak's cooking oil is adjusted to the Highest Retail Price or HET and supervised by the Food Task Force. Well, to monitor the implementation or mechanism in the field, people who buy ID cards are very appropriate. This is because there are restrictions on buyers and can be adjusted to the agreed quota between the government and businessmen," said Zulfydar in Pontianak, Tuesday.
He said, if Manya Kita is not controlled, it will be used by certain parties to be resold in the form of adulterated and others. With the existing control, continued Zulfydar, price stabilization can be guaranteed as evidenced by the current absence of queueing for cooking oil in the market.
"This sales arrangement is important. Again, through control, the ID card shows that it is very bright. In addition to ensuring its designation and not being bought up outside the need, it is also possible to see the need for cooking oil in the field," said Zulfydar.
He explained that the presence of Minya Kita was an effort by the government through the Minister of Trade and entrepreneurs to ensure that cooking oil was available considering that Indonesia was a country producing crude palm oil or CPO.
Previously, the government banned CPO exports because there was a shortage of cooking oil in Indonesia. The scarcity of cooking oil occurs because the quota in the country is not fulfilled. So the government asked employers to fulfill the domestic quota first, then the export quota was opened.
"Indonesia and West Kalimantan themselves are CPO producers. It's funny that we are scarce in cooking oil even though we are central. CPO itself is indeed an export product but don't forget to meet the local need for cooking oil. The government and cooking oil producers finally agreed for everything above balance, so the Minya Kita was present," said Zulfydar.
Meanwhile, a basic food trader, Ulan, said that currently the price of cooking oil from various brands is around Rp. 16,000 - Rp. 18,000 per liter. According to him, the price of cooking oil is currently relatively stable.
"The current price of cooking oil is relatively stable and not scarce. Hopefully the price and stock will be stable," said Ulan.
Based on data from the West Kalimantan Provincial Food Security Service as of February 3, 2023, the average price of packaged cooking oil in West Kalimantan is IDR 16,433 per liter and bulk oil is IDR 13,958 per liter.
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