Healthy but Illegal Rice

There is a regulation to make exceptions to importing rice for health purposes. But the rice now in circulation can be categorized as illegal.

October 19, 2004

THE sudden inspection by Agriculture Minister, Bungaran Saragih, to Carrefour hypermarket in Lebak Bulus before the Ramadan fasting month, was not in vain. In one aisle of the shopping center, Bungaran was stunned to see a pile of rice sacks called Herbal Rice Ponni Taj Mahal produced by a company from India, Peninsula Food Product Sembarambakka. “How come there is imported rice,” he pondered. “Actually, since January, the gover

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