President Asked Not to Get Carried Away by Sugar Profiling Team Recommendations

It is alleged this recommendation has a set-up agenda by seven samurai of white sugar importers who want to get a permit to import white granulated sugar, even though this keeps harming people and sugar cane farmers.

 Abdul Wachid's statement is thought to have a connection, comes out of nowhere, has no solution, and potentially will kill the national food and beverage industry which employs almost  18,9 million formal and informal workers.

Executive Director of Indonesia Development Monitoring Bin Firman Tresnadi expressed his disappointment with the attitude of Abdul Wachid, a Gerindra party member and a legislator from the electoral district of Central Java II, who shows lack of understanding of national sugar trade and who does not side with people running small-medium sized businesses in the food and beverage sector who need products from sugar refining industry considering the SMEs are a reflection of the grass root economy.

"President Jokowi must not be carried away by the recommendation of the House Research Committee on Sugar. We ask Gerindra to summon Abdul Wachid and bring him out of the House Research Committee on Sugar because this will lead to decrease in people's sympathy towards Gerindra," he said.

Bin Firman explained recently there has been a silent operation by granulated white sugar importer mafia against the sugar refining industry in Indonesia.

The indication was discovered by setting up sugar cane farmers and granulated white sugar factories against the sugar refining industry.