JAKARTA - The National Leadership Council of the Indonesian People's Sugar Association (APTRI) ensures that the national sugar stock is available sufficient to meet consumption sugar needs over the coming months. "The consumption sugar stock at the end of December 2022 reached 1.9 million tons. Plus the import quota for 2023 is 1.45 million tons so that a total of 3.35 million tons, while the need for sugar consumption is only 230,000 tons," said APTRI General Chair Soemitro Samadikoen, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, April 5.
"Moreover, East Java is a supplier of 50 percent of the national sugar demand so that in East Java it is also a surplus. We also write to the Governor of East Java," he said. in other provinces that are not sugar producers, which currently need more supplies of white sugar, such as Maluku and Papua.
Aptri juga menolak kapal pengangkut sugar impor tersebut berkantung ke Pelabuhan Tanjung Emas Semarang karena di Jateng juga terdapat pabrik sugar.
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