Retail Entrepreneurs Are Furious That Migor's Vaccination Will Not Be Paid By The Government

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JAKARTA - The government has not paid the debt of cooking oil (migor) to retail entrepreneurs.

The Indonesian Retail Entrepreneurs Association (Aprindo) assessed that the government seems to have no intention of paying the difference in the selling price or the running of cooking oil for almost two years.

"(The debt) of the reaction to this day has not received concrete and concrete steps from the government for the intention of resolving it. Instead, we see that the intention to (repay) may have disappeared," said Aprindo General Chair (Ketum) Roy Nicholas Mandey at a press conference in Jakarta, Wednesday, November 15.

Roy did not deny that there had been pressure from a number of parties for the government to immediately pay off the debt. However, it has not yielded any results to date.

"We have received legal opinion information from the prosecutor's office that the (migrant remittance) must be paid in accordance with the applicable law. From Commission 6 of the DPR, it is necessary to resolve it because this is the government's obligation, where the obligations of business actors have been fulfilled, all of them have been fulfilled," he said.

"Finally, the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs also asked that the settlement be completed and completed through a limited meeting (ratas) between the Ministry of Trade and the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy," added Roy.

To demand payment of the debt, said Roy, his party is now working with cooking oil producers who are also involved in the migor rafaction program.

"Well, not yet in this month we have received support from producers because producers have the same problem. They sell low cooking oil prices to retailers and traditional markets," he said.

The producers who joined his party amounted to five companies.

"We are happy because we have been with manufacturers who question the factions that we think we are being persecuted because we were persuaded to sell them, requested, promised Permendag 3 for various reasons," he said.

The existence of Permendag Number 3 made retailers lower the selling price of cooking oil in modern retailers at that time from around Rp. 23,000 to Rp. 14,000.

The regulation promises that the difference in value or the rate borne by the retailer will be paid by the government through the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS).

Roy admitted that his party opened the option to take legal action if until the end of 2023 there was also no certainty from the government to pay off the debt of the Migor faction.

"The total value of the receivables in question is still being calculated again, because that value will be fought for in legal channels," he said.

For your information, based on Aprindo data as of January 31, 2022, the bill for the fraction of cooking oil reached around Rp. 300 billion from national and local network retailers throughout Indonesia.