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.
