The Mysterious 'Sugar Samurai'
The lawsuit hearing over the import of white sugar lasted only a quarter of an hour at the East Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN). On Tuesday two weeks ago, presiding judge Haryati merely read a challenge by the defendant's legal team, appearing for the Trade Ministry.
The lawsuit had been filed by 10 sugarcane farmers from Kudus and Pati in Central Java. They were challenging a policy allowing the import of 328,000 tons of white sugar. The plaintiffs, members of the Indonesian Sugarcane Farmers' Association (APTRI), blamed the policy for a fall in the price of sugar. The farmers' sugar was being traded at around Rp8,250-8,551 per kilogram at several sugar refineries, far below the government's benchmark price of Rp8,791.
August 5, 2014
The lawsuit hearing over the import of white sugar lasted only a quarter of an hour at the East Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN). On Tuesday two weeks ago, presiding judge Haryati merely read a challenge by the defendant's legal team, appearing for the Trade Ministry.
The lawsuit had been filed by 10 sugarcane farmers from Kudus and Pati in Central Java. They were challenging a policy allowing the import of 328,000 tons of white sugar. The
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