The Foods and Beverages Merchants in Jabodetabek Lost Their Income Until
Rp 200 billion
Bad weather that hit several regions
in Indonesia is large enough to impact the food and beverage industry in this
country. For only the Jabodetabek area, the floods predicted suppress the
turnover to 25 percent.
Chairman of the Food and Beverage
Association of Indonesia (Gapmmi) Adhi Lukman explained, a decrease of revenue
is due to the difficulty of the distribution of products from the factory to
the market because of the flooding block. Thus, it spreads on the decline in
consumption.
As an overall result, Adhi estimated
the food and beverage industry in Jabodetabek lost the income until Rp 200
billion per day. “In the normal situation, the income in each day for this
region reached USD 800 billion,” he said on Tuesday (01/21/2014).
It is not only the distribution to
the consumer, food and beverage manufacturers must also bear the losses due to
the distribution of raw materials from the another region which also faltered.
For example, the transportation of
fresh fruit and meat from Central Java, currently takes up to four days.
Though, it usually takes only a half day. “Whereas within five days, the fresh
raw materials will rot in about 50 percent” he said.
It hasn’t counted yet the losses
because the factory could not be operated due to workers who could not get in
because of flooding, or because there is no electricity supply due to outages
by PLN in some areas.
Despite the losses is in sight,
according to Adhi, manufacturers of foods and beverages will not raise their
selling prices. Because this problem is only temporary
So, I think the Government should be
more quick response to this flooding problem will not be detrimental to the
traders, and traders should sell by lowering the selling price to the rest of
the food is still left no foul.
And because of the power outages in
the area they make traders became very hard to sell their merchandise,
therefore the Government should be very seriously and swiftly to deal with this
issue so that not many traders obtained loss
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