Sweet Surrender

With the failure of PT PNs to stabilize the price of sugar, the government has now turned to Bulog. However, Bulog itself needs to be carefully monitored.

March 4, 2003

MINISTER of Trade & Industry Rini Soewandi is making another attempt to balance the interests of sugar growers and consumers—this time involving the State Logistics Agency (Bulog). It would seem there is nowhere else to turn, so that in practice the government is being forced to shift from one type of commercial scheme to another. Under the old scheme, Rini awarded the right to import sugar to a number of PT PNs. The resulting hope

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