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.
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