Rice Stock In Tangerang Is Safe, Bulog Asks Traders To Sell According To HET

Rice stock in Bulog warehouse/ Photo: IST

TANGERANG - The Logistics Agency (Bulog) of the Tangerang Regional Sub Division (Divre) ensures that the rice stock in the warehouse is sufficient to meet the needs of residents for the next few months. This was conveyed directly by the Head of Bulog for the Tangerang Regional Division, Omar Syarif.

"There are 15 thousand tons. For traders, it's just a matter of filling out the predetermined administration," Omar said when confirmed, Wednesday, October 11.

Omar explained that the availability of existing rice stocks could meet the needs of traders in the market. In fact, his party will provide a quota of about two tons for traders.

"The record will be that traders will have to sell at the Highest Retail Price (HET)," he said.

He said, in distributing rice, an administrative process would be applied to avoid fraud in the distribution to the public.

"Yes, to filter people, it means they are responsible. We have provisions so that traders distribute HET rice to the community not to be traded on HET and so on," he said.

He said that currently there are not many traders who know about this information. For this reason, his party asked the traders to visit Bulog's warehouse.

"So not all of them took it, because they didn't take care of the administration," he said.