Below Standard, SOEs Reprocess Sugar Production Results

Deputy for Agro and Pharmaceutical Industry of the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises, Wahyu Kuncoro, admitted that this was the only way to improve production quality, especially the whiteness level of the sugar.
`So, this is indeed the only way, it cannot be sold. So, it is included in the final grinding process, during washing,` Wahyu asserted to journalists at the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises, Monday (4/9/2017).
He admitted that the rewashing process requires additional cost and the sugar that is reprocessed will be reduced. This will be calculated by the state-owned enterprise as part of the losses.
In the sealing process of the 18 sugar warehouses owned by PT Perkebunan Nusantara X (Persero) and PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (Persero), samples were taken from at least 42 thousand tons of sugar in total.
`So, if it is reprocessed, there will definitely be a reduction,` Wahyu said.
Wahyu added that this incident is expected to be a material for evaluation for all state-owned enterprises engaged in sugar production business. Even though national sugar production has yet to be sufficient to fulfill public needs, sugar quality should not decline.
`Perhaps, this quality issue has not been a matter of concern so far because we are actually experiencing deficit, so all production sold. Now, I don't know why, the market is unable to absorb, the quality issue has become important,` he said.

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