Jokowi Bans CPO Exports Of Cooking Oil, DPR Wants Government To Maintain Domestic Price Stability

President Jokowi/Photo: Setkab

JAKARTA - Member of Commission VI of the DPR from the PPP faction, Achmad Baidowi, assessed that President Joko Widodo's decision to ban the export of CPO and cooking oil must be accompanied by anticipation of a price spike after the upcoming Eid al-Fitr.

The reason is, the ban does not immediately solve the cooking oil problem that has been going on for months. In particular, for small and medium business industries, for example culinary business actors such as food stalls.

According to Baidowi, although the export of cooking oil has been banned, the government must not be careless with the domestic supply and demand for cooking oil. cooking oil and maintaining price stability is much more urgent in the short term," Baidowi said, Monday, April 25. The secretary of the PPP faction also questioned whether the ban on cooking oil exports applies to all CPO or not. Because he said, only RBD olein which is the raw material for bulk cooking oil, simple packaged cooking oil, and premium packaging.

"It seems that only RBD olein or cooking oil raw materials are prohibited from export, while other CPO derivative products are not prohibited. Entrepreneurs can still freely export CPO products other than RBD olein," said Baidowi.

It is known, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has officially banned the export of crude palm oil (CPO) and cooking oil products. This ban will take effect on Thursday, April 28.

"At the meeting, I decided that the government would prohibit the export of raw materials for cooking oil and cooking oil," Jokowi said Friday, April 22.