Bulog Already Contracted 4 Countries For 500 Thousand Tons Of Rice Imports

JAKARTA - President Director of Perum Bulog Budi Waseso revealed that his party had entered into contracts with several countries to bring in 500,000 tons of rice.

"I have a contract with it, with some countries I have a contract of 500,000 (tons)," he said when met in the Priok area, North Jakarta, Wednesday, April 12.

Buwas, Budi Waseso's nickname, said that there are four importing countries that have entered into a cooperation contract with Bulog. One of them is Thailand.

From anywhere, 4 countries namely Thailand, Pakistan, India, and Vietnam. And we are exploring Myanmar," he said.

With this contract, said Buwas, it is certain that the government's rice reserves (CBP) stock is safe. This is because Buwas explained that this imported rice is used as a government reserve, not for sale.

"It's been locked 500.000. So it's safe, I don't want speculation, it must be all. That's for CBP, if there's no problem with CBP, I just bring it in in stages from the quota of 2 million," he said.

Because its function is as a reserve, continued Buwas, his party will bring in imported rice according to domestic needs. If the fulfillment of reserves from the domestic petadi harvest is deemed sufficient, then the import rice quota of 2 million does not need to be met.

"Look at the situation, if we have a lot of absorption (from the results of the farmers), we don't need to (import). Only 500.000 is enough, it's over," he said.