A number of Surabaya residents hunting packaged cooking oil after the government revoked the highest retail price (THE). The reason is, the policy is considered to make cooking oil prices soar.
One of them happened at the supermarket on Jalan Dr. Ir Soekarno, MERR Surabaya. A number of housewives are even willing to queue to get cooking oil.
“No soap, no soap, no oil (bathing without soap, there’s nothing wrong with having cooking oil),” said a resident who was met CNNIndonesia.comWednesday (16/3).
In this supermarket, the price of Sunco brand cooking oil is sold at Rp. 14,000 per liter or Rp. 28,000 per one package of two liters. Each resident can only buy one package.
One of the employees, Ilham, said that the price of cooking oil in his shop is predicted to rise on Thursday (17/3) to IDR 43,000 per two liters. Along with the government’s policy of revoking HET.
“He said it was Rp. 43,000, the information is like that,” said Ilham.
Meanwhile, in one of the minimarkets located in the Tambaksari area of Surabaya, the stock of cooking oil was also sold out by residents.
“Each runs out in-display It won’t take long,” said one of the employees at the minimarket, Arif.
He said residents were willing to queue to get cooking oil at a price of Rp. 28,000 per two liter package, before the price increased tomorrow.
“The information is that tomorrow it will increase to Rp. 43,000, but the stock is not yet available,” he said.
In Jakarta, packaged cooking oil is also increasingly being sold, one of which is at a supermarket in Setiabudi, Jakarta at a price of IDR 44 thousand per two liters for premium packaging.
quote SecondWednesday (16/3), at a supermarket in the Setiabudi area, premium two-liter packaged cooking oil is sold at a price range of Rp. 43,900 to Rp. 44 thousand.
Meanwhile, packaged cooking oil is also scarce in various online stalls, for example at the Food Station, which runs out of cooking oil stocks from 900 ml to 1,800 ml.
Food Station priced the Super FS brand of palm cooking oil at IDR 20,500 per liter or IDR 41 thousand per 2 liters.
Then, at Transmart, the only cooking oil available at the Duta Merlin branch is the Harumas brand at a price of Rp. 14 thousand per liter.
Meanwhile, in a different location, Sukajadi, Bandung, it was observed that several brands were offered, such as Camar, Tropical, Rose Brand, Sunco, to Harumas at a price of IDR 28 thousand per 2 liters.
Meanwhile, through the Happyfresh application, cooking oil is still available at the Grand Lucky Grand Paragon branch with Tropical, Sania, Bimoli, and Rose Brand variants at a price of Rp. 14 thousand/liter.
Similarly, at the Ranch Market, cooking oil is still available at a price of Rp. 14 thousand/liter for the Filma, Sania, Tropical and Bimoli brands. However, buyers can only buy a maximum of 2 liters per brand.
Then, in Blibli, it was seen that there was still palm cooking oil priced at Rp. 14 thousand per liter of the Filma, Sovia, Fortune, Gurih, Masku, and Salvaco brands.
Previously, the government had determined that the HET for packaged cooking oil worth Rp. 14,000 would be revoked and handed over to the market mechanism.
Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said this policy was taken from the results of a limited meeting by observing global developments.
The reason is, recently global uncertainty has caused the price of energy and food supplies to rise and become scarce, including the availability of CPO for cooking oil.
(frd/wel)
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