5,000 Tons Of Imported Rice From Vietnam Arriving In Kupang NTT

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - A total of five thousand tons of imported rice from Vietnam arrived at the port of Tenau Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara Province to be distributed to people in all islands-based provinces.

"Today we have the arrival of a ship from Vietnam carrying five thousand tons of rice," said the Manager of the Public Procurement of the Logistics Affairs Agency (Bulog) of the East Nusa Tenggara Regional Office, Denny Kurniawan, in Kupang, quoted from Antara, Friday, January 13.

This was conveyed when he welcomed the arrival of a ship carrying five thousand tons of rice from Vietnam that arrived at the port of Tenau Kupang.

Denny said that the five thousand tons of rice from Vietnam would be immediately lowered and stored in Bulog's warehouse to be distributed throughout the region in NTT.

Today this rice will be dismantled. We have prepared the vehicle and human resources to lower some of the rice to be brought to Bulog's warehouse," he added.

However, he said, his party would not immediately distribute it to regions, but would temporarily be stored in warehouses and then stored as government reserves.

The distribution process to the community is still waiting for direct orders from the central Bulog.

The imported rice, he said, is actually equivalent to premium rice when compared to rice in Indonesia.

"But in NTT we put it in class as medium rice," he added.

Furthermore, he said, as long as there is still no order from the center, his party will try to take care of it and care for it so that the stored rice can last up to two years.