Special Treatment for Importers
The agriculture ministry and trade ministry’s import recommendations and approvals for horticultural products reek of nepotism. Only permits for those in the NasDem Party are quickly processed.
Tempo
November 3, 2020
THE WhatsApp group “Bombay” only lasted one day. Agriculture ministry employees created the group on April 16, with members such as the ministry’s officials as well as onion and fruit importers. The ministry created the group as a way to communicate the procedure for importing horticultural commodities.
At first, the group’s members discussed the prices of fruits and onions, which had spiked. The conversation heated when
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