Salurkan Bantuan Pangan Pemerintah, Bos Bulog: Beras Premium Dan Tidak Berutu
President Director of Perum Bulog Budi Waseso. (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Public Company of State-Owned Enterprises (Perum Bulog) guarantees that the rice used for the government's food assistance program is good quality and uncooperated rice.

As is known, Bulog distributed government rice food assistance simultaneously throughout Indonesia today. Assistance is given in the form of 10 kilograms (kg) for each beneficiary family (KPM).

"This is what premium rice is distributed, don't say that rice has ticks, rotten rice. Now Bulog rice is new, quality, there is no old rice," said Bulog President Director Budi Waseso, at the Bulog Kelapa Gading Warehouse Complex, North Jakarta, Thursday, April 6.

Buwas, as Budi Waseso is known, ensured that the rice distributed had already been checked for quality conditions and quantity before being handed over to the beneficiaries.

Bulog is committed to channeling this. Take steps to accelerate distribution. Rice distributed to check the quality and quantity for supervision. Don't let it be received unequally," he explained.

Buwas said the 2023 Food Assistance program would be given for three months of allocation, namely March, April and May in order to fulfill food, especially when facing Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr 2023.

The allocation has been prepared to serve the needs of distributing rice to 21.3 million recipients or as many as 213,530 tons per allocation. So that later it will be distributed as much as 640,590 tons for three months of allocation," he said.


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