The scarcity of cooking oil should not happen in East Java considering that the cooking oil needs in this province are around 59 thousand tons per month. This should meet with the factory production capacity of 62 thousand tons per month. There is a
Surabaya, East Java (ANTARA) -

The East Java provincial government has asked cooking oil distributors to help accelerate the distribution of subsidized cooking oil to all modern, retail, and traditional markets. Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa said there has been a cooking oil shortage ever since the central government set the highest retail price (HET) of cooking oil at Rp14 thousand per liter.



"Apart from the high interest of the public to get affordable cooking oil, the scarcity might happen due to delays in the delivery from distributors," Parawansa noted in a press statement here on Tuesday.


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Accompanied by Brawijaya Regional Military Commander, Major General Nurchahyanto, and East Java Regional Police chief, Inspector General Nico Afinta, Parawansa visited a cooking oil production facility, PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia, in Gresik to ensure cooking oil supplies for the community.



"The scarcity of cooking oil should not happen in East Java considering that the cooking oil needs in this province are around 59 thousand tons per month. This should meet with the factory production capacity of 62 thousand tons per month. There is a three thousand-ton surplus," she remarked.



However, the Governor said that during her visit to modern retail stores, she found that many stores had not received cooking oil for almost a week.

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This condition is hindering people from getting cooking oil at the price set by the government, Parawansa said.



The government set the HET for cooking oil on February 1, 2022. The price of premium packaged cooking oil has been set at Rp14 thousand per liter, simple packaged cooking oil at Rp13,500 per liter, and bulk cooking oil at Rp11,500 per liter, she noted.



Supply chains are important for controlling cooking oil prices in the market, the Governor said. Disruptions in the supply chains will create problems in cooking oil procurement in markets, she added.



Parawansa further said she hoped that the entire process can provide supply chain certainty to consumers, in accordance with the HET determined by the Trade Ministry.


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