TIME.CO, Jakarta – The most followed economic and commercial news of Tuesday 6 December 2022, starting with the decision rice imports 200 thousand tons to guarantee the government’s rice reserve.
Next, there’s news of Europe entering a winter recession and OJK will track down the assets and personal assets of Wanaartha Life’s controlling shareholders. Then there is the question of Jokowi who reminds him not to be wrong in calculating the rice question and the Forbes list of the richest people in 2022.
The five news most consulted by the readers of the Tempo.co Economia e Impresa channel. The following is a summary of the five trending news.
1. The government authorizes the importation of 200 thousand tons of rice, bapanas: only for government activities
The government has decided to take steps to import 200,000 tons of commercial rice. National Food Agency (Bapanas) chief Arief Prasetyo Adi said the imports were made after considering the state of the government’s rice reserves which were currently running low, so they needed to be added immediately to anticipate an emergency.
“These food reserves must be available and not freely distributed, only used for different government activities,” Arief said after the cabinet plenary meeting at the State Palace, Jakarta, quoted in his statement on Monday, December 6, 2022.
According to him, the imported rice stock is only used under certain conditions such as disaster management, price intervention if needed, and several other government activities.
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