{ "success": true, "data": { "id": 1736549, "msgid": "hearing-reports-of-minyakita-shortages-here-is-the-response-from-the-trade-minister-and-zulhas-1778659146", "date": "2026-05-13 13:55:00", "title": "Hearing Reports of Minyakita Shortages, Here is the Response from the Trade Minister and Zulhas", "author": "", "source": "CNBC", "tags": "", "topic": "Trade", "summary": "Indonesia's Trade Minister Budi Santoso has assured that national stocks of the subsidised cooking oil Minyakita remain secure, despite shortages in markets like Pasar Senen in Jakarta, attributing the limited supply to its role in the domestic market obligation (DMO) policy aimed at stabilising prices rather than dominating the market. He highlighted distribution challenges in eastern regions such as Papua and Maluku, urging state-owned enterprises like Bulog to enhance supplies, with over 50% already channelled through BUMN pangan exceeding the 35% minimum requirement. Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas) noted that prices in Java and Sumatra align with the highest retail price (HET) of Rp15,700 per litre, but remain elevated in remote areas due to high transportation costs, prompting calls for accelerated Bulog supplies and transport subsidies from the Ministry of Transportation.", "content": "

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Trade Minister Budi Santoso has responded\nto complaints about Minyakita still being difficult to find in several\nmarkets in Jakarta, such as Pasar Senen where stocks are empty. The\ngovernment assures that stocks of this public cooking oil are in a safe\ncondition. According to Budi, the public needs to view Minyakita\u2019s\nposition as part of the domestic market obligation (DMO) policy, so its\ndistribution volume is not as large as other commercial cooking oils. He\nexplained that Minyakita is essentially a government instrument to\nmaintain cooking oil price stability in the market, not to dominate the\nsupply. \u201cMinyakita is DMO oil. I always say that DMO oil is oil that is\ndistributed or mandatory due to exports. So the amount is not like the\namount of other oils,\u201d said Budi when met at Pasar Palmerah, Central\nJakarta, on Wednesday (13\/5\/2026). Budi stated that the existence of\nMinyakita serves as a balancer to prevent other cooking oil prices from\nrising too high. \u201cBut we have to maintain it. Because Minyakita is\nactually an instrument for price stabilisation. So its function is as a\nbalancer. A balancer so that when prices rise, other (cooking oil)\nprices do not rise. That\u2019s actually its function,\u201d he clarified.\nResponding to the coordination meeting results on inflation control from\nthe Ministry of Home Affairs, which showed average prices for bulk\ncooking oil, premium packaged cooking oil, and Minyakita already above\nRp19,000 per litre, Budi said the situation is influenced by the rise in\nglobal crude palm oil (CPO) prices. \u201cIf we look at it, it\u2019s indeed like\nthat. Because premium cooking oil, and outside of Minyakita, will\ncertainly adjust to the CPO price which has risen again now, as well as\ndistribution prices and so on,\u201d he said. He hopes that cooking oil\nprices can return to falling once distribution conditions and prices\nnormalise. \u201cHopefully, if everything returns to normal, prices will\nstart to fall too, because the situation is that oil prices are rising,\u201d\nsaid Budi. Budi also assured that Minyakita stocks nationwide are still\nsafe. According to him, the main issue currently is more related to\ndistribution, especially in eastern Indonesia such as Papua and Maluku.\n\u201cStocks are safe, no problem, stocks are safe. For Papua and Maluku\nareas, it\u2019s actually a distribution issue. That\u2019s why we always ask\nBulog,\u201d he said. Therefore, the government is encouraging the\ndistribution of Minyakita through state-owned food companies like Perum\nBulog and ID Food to make distribution to eastern regions smoother.\n\u201cYes, one of the purposes of the minimum 35% to BUMN Pangan is actually\nfor the eastern regions, because there aren\u2019t many distributors there,\u201d\nBudi explained. He added that so far, the distribution of Minyakita\nthrough BUMN pangan has even exceeded the minimum requirement. \u201cSo the\nminimum is 35%, in principle the producers have no issue. Meaning if the\nquota is more than 35% it\u2019s also fine. Now it\u2019s already more than 50%\ndistributed by BUMN Pangan,\u201d he said. Budi hopes distribution to Papua\nand Maluku can improve soon. \u201cHopefully all distribution to Papua and\nMaluku is smooth and quickly resolved,\u201d he said. Meanwhile, Coordinating\nMinister for Food Affairs Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas) said that Minyakita\nprices in Java and Sumatra regions are actually relatively in line with\nthe highest retail price (HET) of Rp15,700 per litre. \u201cFrom the\ninformation I have on cooking oil, we\u2019ve been meeting about this for\nseveral days. For Java Island, Sumatra Island, you can check SP2KP, the\nnearby ones are blue. Blue-green means in line with HET,\u201d said Zulhas on\nthe same occasion. However, Zulhas acknowledged that Minyakita prices\nare still expensive in Papua and Maluku due to high distribution and\ntransportation costs. \u201cBut the expensive ones are in Maluku and Papua.\nWhat does that mean? It means transportation,\u201d he said. The government\nis asking Bulog to accelerate supplies to those areas, including through\ntransport subsidies from the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub). \u201cWe\nask that this can be handled by Bulog immediately supplying the areas\nincluding Papua and Maluku. Later also with the Ministry of\nTransportation. Because Kemenhub provides transportation subsidies so\nthat transport gets subsidies, thus prices can be suppressed,\u201d Zulhas\nconcluded.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/hearing-reports-of-minyakita-shortages-here-is-the-response-from-the-trade-minister-and-zulhas-1778659146", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }