Buying Bulk Cooking Oil Must Use Care To Protect, Observer: Makes It Difficult And Difficult For The Community

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JAKARTA - The government will require the purchase of bulk cooking oil with the PeduliLindung application after the socialization of the change in the purchasing system ends.

This socialization has been running for five days and will continue for up to two weeks.

In response to this, Trisaksi University Public Policy Observer Trubus Rahadiansyah said that the policy of purchasing bulk cooking oil with the PeduliLindung application would be very inconvenient and make it difficult for the community.

Moreover, said Trubus, the users of bulk cooking oil are the lower middle class. Where not all of them have infrastructure, in this case mobile phones and minimal digital literacy.

"In the end, it's troublesome and difficult. They basically don't want to know about this kind of business, the important thing is that they pay and get goods. We have to understand the logic of the small people. If you want cooking oil, you have to use this application, it's even burdensome for them," he said when contacted by VOI, Friday, July 1.

Moreover, Trubus assessed that the use of the PeduliLindung application to attend sales was not well targeted nor effective. According to him, there is always a way that people cheat.

Furthermore, Trubus said, if the government's only reason for attending the sale was mistargeted and speculators, then what must be strengthened is its supervision and regulation.

"Supervision is the same as giving sanctions, policies, everything is just a political will. Now if you want to use the application, you can also trick it," he said.

Therefore, Trubus suggested that the government review the mandatory bulk cooking oil purchase policy with the PeduliLindung application.

"In my opinion, it needs to be re-examined. Because if it continues, it makes it difficult for the community. Just use an ID card. So with the application, I think it's even difficult for the community. Because it makes it difficult, complicated," he said.

The use of CareProtect Application is not to make it difficult

Previously reported, Acting Deputy for Infrastructure and Transportation Coordinating Ministry Marves Rachmat Kaimuddin said that the change in the purchasing system for bulk cooking oil with the PeduliLindung application was not to make it difficult for the community.

However, continued Rachmat, this step was taken to ensure that the sale of bulk cooking oil was right on target, as well as a control tool in minimizing the potential for hoarding and smuggling.

Rachmat also explained the reason why the PeduliLindung application was chosen. This is because the application is mature and familiar to the public in the two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We don't want to make it difficult or complicated at all, but we are looking for a solution that we think has often been used but wants control because this item is not unlimited," he said in a virtual press conference, Tuesday, June 28.

The PeduliLindung application itself, said Rachmat, has been used by 90 million Indonesians. Rachmat said, those who use the application can be trusted because it has been integrated with the population identification number (NIK) listed on the identity card (KTP).

Furthermore, Rachmat explained that this was different from purchases with conditions using an ID card. This is because there is a possibility that the person who bought bulk cooking oil used a fake ID card.

"We know how much is issued, we can see how many NIK are collected, we can see the average. If we look at a point of 10 kg per day, we play there, we can check with the Food Task Force, it's true that not all customers sell fried foods, for example ," he said.