Abundant Supply Of Cooking Oil In Cirebon, No More Queues For Buyers

Workers unload bulk cooking oil at a distributor's warehouse at Lambaro Market, Aceh Besar, Aceh, Saturday (21/5/2022). (Antara/Syifa Yulinnas)

JAKARTA - A distributor of bulk cooking oil located in Cirebon City, West Java, said the oil supply is still very abundant, even now there is no queue of buyers, because the market is abundant.

"Nowadays, the supply of bulk cooking oil is very abundant," said Director of PT Maju Jaya Kekal Abadi, the distributor of Cirebon bulk cooking oil, Feri Harianto, in Cirebon, Saturday as quoted by Antara.

According to him, before Eid al-Fitr, the queue of buyers was still very long, but after President Joko Widodo banned the export of cooking oil, supplies immediately overflowed.

Even Feri said, before the export ban and the establishment of the highest retail price (HET), bulk cooking oil was very difficult to find.

He continued that in a day, his party could only distribute one to two 9,000 liter tanks, because there was no supply.

"But now it's normal again, I have also distributed it to shops at a price of Rp. 14,500 per liter," he said.

Feri added that after the export ban was lifted, his party hopes that prices will remain stable, and supply will run smoothly as it is today.

Because, when supplies are scarce, it will be very difficult for retail traders and distributors like him.

"Until now, the supply is still there, and there are many available in the market," he said.

Meanwhile, the Cirebon fried peanut seller, Umiyati, hopes that cooking oil will not become scarce again, because now there are a lot of them.