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JAKARTA - PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (Persero) or Food Holding ID FOOD encourages increased use of domestic food products through strengthening upstream-downstream supply chains and sales transactions. To date, ID FOOD has succeeded in realizing purchases of domestic products of up to IDR 57.5 billion.

President Director of Food Holding ID FOOD, Frans Marganda Tambunan, said this was a form of realization that the company was following up on President Joko Widodo's direction to increase the use of local Indonesian products.

Furthermore, Frans said that this was also in line with the direction of the Minister of SOEs Erick Thohir to prioritize the use of domestic products within SOEs, prioritizing the absorption of domestic products. "This is also in line with the SOE Ministry's transformation program," he said in an official statement, Friday, June 3.

Meanwhile, Director of Supply Chain Management and Information Technology ID FOOD Adhi Cahyono Nugroho added that in order to support the Company for the Acceleration of Increasing the Use of Domestic Products (P3DN), which is currently being intensively promoted by the government, ID FOOD Group synergizes with cross-stakeholders, one of which is by Ministry of PUPR.

The synergy is through business meetings in the context of affirming the use and purchase of domestic products for two periods, namely 23 to 27 May 2022 and 30 to 31 May 2022, organized by the Ministry of PUPR.

"In a short period of time in the synergy of these activities, ID FOOD Group managed to record around Rp. 57.5 billion realization and commitments covering transactions for sugar, frozen fish and marine products, rice, beef and chicken, cooking oil, salt, and non-food items such as sacks. or plastic packaging," said Adhi.

In addition, continued Adhi, the signing of trade cooperation was also carried out, including those related to the distribution of salt, other food and non-food products.

Adhi said the public's interest in choosing and consuming domestic food products was very large, as evidenced by the high potential for transactions that could be recorded in a short period of seven days of activity.

"The efforts of ID FOOD's Food SOE Holding to continue to introduce and promote food products have resulted in a number of transactions and exploration of cooperation with various parties such as the private sector, BUMN, BUMD, as well as institutions and agencies," he said.

Furthermore, Adhi said, many ID FOOD food and non-food products have obtained Domestic Component Level (TKDN) certification, including Crude Palm Oil (CPO) as a basic ingredient for cooking oil with a TKDN level of up to 99.6 percent, sugar, salt and pepper. other ID FOOD group products.

"We open up business opportunities to cooperate with strategic partners. The products produced by the Food BUMN holding have the potential to be collaborated with MSMEs. Using domestic food products is the same as supporting the improvement of the welfare of farmers, breeders and fishermen who contribute to the growth national food ecosystem," he said.

In addition, as a form of support for the Acceleration of Increasing the Use of Domestic Products (P3DN), Adhi also ensures the company's commitment to optimizing the budget for domestic production spending, especially for goods that are already produced domestically.

"We are ready to support the increase in the use of domestic products in accordance with Presidential Instruction (Inpres) No. 2 of 2022, which specifically regulates the issue of accelerating the increase in the use of domestic products and Micro Products, Small Businesses (MSMEs)," he said.

On the other hand, the Head of the National Food Agency, Arief Prasetyo Adi, responded that local food products play a major role in contributing to strengthening the national food stock. Furthermore, Arief said this was also in accordance with what was mandated by President Joko Widodo to optimize Indonesian food.

"We are creating a domestic food ecosystem, the market already exists, the food market is in Indonesia, there is a great opportunity to realize the domestic ecosystem in collaboration with various stakeholders, one of which is the synergy of Food SOEs," he said.


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