Inaugurating Its Factory In Deli Serdang, Jokowi Values That Red Food Oil Will Be A Trend

President Jokowi after inspecting the North Sumatra Wire Market, Thursday, March 12. (ANTARA/Screenshot/Rangga Pandu)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) assesses that the use of red food oil will be a good trend, in terms of fried food in the future.

"There are a lot of Vitamins there (red food oil) and the price is cheaper, I think this will be a good trend for fried food," said the President at the Tanjungbalai Wire Market, North Sumatra (North Sumatra), after the inauguration of the red food oil factory in Deli Serdang, Thursday, March 14, was confiscated by Antara.

He said, with the red food oil factory in Deli Serdang, fresh fruit bunches processed into crude palm oil (CPO) can be directly processed into red food oil.

"The red food oil is very good. First, because nutrition is not lost, vitamins are not lost. Vitamin A, vitamin E, other nutrients are also there," he said.

According to the President, the price of red food oil is also under ordinary cooking oil. He said that red food oil will continue to be developed in other provinces in Indonesia.

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) previously inaugurated the Merbau fence red food oil factory in Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra on Thursday, March 14.

The construction of a red food oil factory is expected to provide added value for oil palm farmers who have around 6.2 million hectares of oil palm plantations throughout Indonesia.

"We want the added value to be in the country, so the price of FFB (fresh fruit sign) does not go up and down because here everything is processed into finished goods, namely red food oil," he said.