InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – On Friday (26/5/2023) Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha (KPPU) red the sentence on the case Number 15/KPPU-I/2022 about Violation Assumption Chapter 5 and Chapter 19 Letter C which is about Packaged Palm Cooking Oil Trade in Indonesia.

In the sentence, Commission Assembly stated that the 27 reported instances in the case were not proven to violate Chapter 5 (about price decision). But Commission Assembly sentenced that seven (7) reported ones, they are, Reported I, Reported II, Reported V, Reported XVIII, Reported XX, Reported XXIII, and Reported XXIV are legally and convincingly proven to break Chapter 19 letter c (about the distribution limit/goods trade). For the violation, KPPU sentenced big various fines to the 7 reported, from Rp 71.280.000.000 (seventy one billion and two hundred eighty million rupiah).

For information, the case was the initiative of KPPU that related to violation assumption Chapter 5 Regulation Number 5 / 1999 by the reported ones in October 2021 until December 2021, and in March 2022 to Mei 2022.

The reported institutions were suspected to violate Chapter 19 letter c Regulation Number 5 / 1999 in January 2022 to May 2022 when selling packaged palm cooking oil in Indonesia. The case went on until Commission Assembly investigated it.

“Preliminary examination on the case was conducted by Commission Assembly since 20 October 2022. It followed up to be examined since 25 November 2022, and the extension of follow-up examination until 4 April 2023,” the note mentioned in KPPU Court, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Saturday (27/5/2023).

The companies that should pay the fine are PT Asianagro Agungjaya, PT Batara Elok Semesta, PT Incasi Raya, PT Salim Ivomas Pratama Tbk, PT Budi Nabati Perkasa, PT Multimas Nabati Asa, and PT Sinar Alam Permai. (T2)