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, mthe 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.