Coordinating Minister Luhut: Only Indonesia And Bangladesh Are Countries In The World That Still Use Bulk Cooking Oil

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan revealed, there are only two countries that still use bulk cooking oil. These countries are Bangladesh and Indonesia.

Therefore, Luhut wants to remove bulk cooking oil and replace it with simple packaging.

It is planned that the abolition will be carried out in stages.

"So we want this bulk, we make simple packaging, step by step," said Luhut at the BPKP office, Wednesday, June 15.

According to Luhut, later the price of simple packaged cooking oil to replace bulk cooking oil will be attempted at a price of Rp. 14,000 per liter.

Luhut believes that the price can be maintained, provided that the supply of raw materials for simple cooking oil is sufficient.

"Market mechanism, if the supply is sufficient, it will go," said Luhut.

For your information, the government plans to remove bulk cooking oil.

The reason is because bulk cooking oil is not good for consumption.

The plan has also been communicated to the entrepreneur. They were also asked to prepare packaged cooking oil at a fixed price.

Responding to the plan, General Chairperson of the Indonesian Market Traders Association (Ikappi) Abdullah Mansuri said the elimination of bulk cooking oil had been discussed several times in previous years.

According to Mansuri, the issue of eliminating bulk cooking oil occurs for several reasons, namely hygiene, and in the world there are only two countries that use bulk cooking oil, namely Indonesia and Bangladesh.

However, said Mansuri, Ikappi sees some facts on the ground that the elimination of bulk cooking oil is difficult to realize.

This is because the national needs for the lower middle class still depend on bulk cooking oil, so the policy was eventually cancelled.

"Since 2014, until last year 2021, there was also talk about the abolition of bulk cooking oil. But the discourse was canceled by the Ministry of Trade itself," said Mansuri.