Cooking Oil for the Poor

Wednesday, 21 January, 2009 | 14:10 WIB 

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:The government will collaborate with cooking oil producers to sell 1.000 tons of oil next month. According to trade minister Mari Elka Pangestu the collaboration is an effort to stabilize the price of this basic need. The target group for the Rp6.000-per liter oil will be the poor people. The price is cheaper than the market price which is Rp7.000 per liter. 

The sale is scheduled to be implemented in 14 provinces. “We have seven cooking oil producers who are willing to collaborate,” Mari said, adding that for the last two weeks, the government and the cooking oil producers have distributed 50.000 liters of their products through direct sales. 

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