Suswono Pastikan Pasokan Beras untuk Jakarta Aman
Indonesian Agriculture Minister Ensure Rice Supplies to Jakarta is Safe
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Jakarta (B2B) - Pemerintah memastikan bahwa pasokan beras ke Jakarta tidak akan terganggu meskipun banjir melanda di daerah-daerah penghasil beras dalam beberapa hari terakhir.
"Saat ini pasokan beras ke Pasar Induk Cipinang aman. Tidak ada gangguan," kata Menteri Koordinator Bidang Perekonomian Hatta Rajasa saat meninjau pasar grosir Cipinang, Jakarta Timur, Rabu.
Dalam kunjungan ke Pasar Induk Cipinang, Hatta Rajasa didampingi Menteri Pertanian Suswono, Menteri Kelautan dan Perikanan Sharif Cicip Sutardjo, Wakil Menteri Perdagangan Bayu Krisnamurthi, Direktur Utama Badan Urusan Logistik (Bulog) Sutarto Alimoeso, dan Kepala Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) Suryamin.
Hatta menambahkan saat ini pasokan beras ke Pasar Induk beras Cipinang sekitar 1.500 ton per hari, atau masih aman untuk mencukupi kebutuhan warga DKI Jakarta. "Jika nanti terjadi kekurangan maka akan disuplai oleh Bulog," katanya.
Menyinggung dampak banjir terhadap kenaikan harga beras, Menko Ekonomi mengakui adanya peningkatan Rp100/kg karena transportasi terganggu.
"Kita punya stok cukup. Di gudang Bulog ada 2 juta ton beras, berapapun kekurangannya akan disuplai," katanya.
Jakarta (B2B) - The Indonesian government gave assurance on Wednesday that rice supplies to Jakarta will not be disrupted despite flooding in rice producing areas in the past few days.
"Right now rice supplies to the Cipinang wholesale market are safe," Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa stated while inspected the Cipinang wholesale market in East Jakarta on Wednesday.
During the visit, Hatta was accompanied by Agriculture Minister Suswono, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Cicip Sharif Sutardjo, Deputy Trade Minister Bayu Krisnamurthi, President Director of State Logistics Agency (Bulog) Sutarto Alimoeso, and Chief of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Suryamin.
Hatta added that rice supplies to the Cipinang wholesale market currently reached 1,500 tons per day. "In case of shortage, Bulog will supply rice to the capital," he explained.
The minister added that the floods that struck several parts of the country had raised rice price by Rp100 a kg due to transportation problem.
"We have adequate stocks. The Bulog warehouse now holds approximately 2 million tons of rice stocks," he assured.
