Undisturbed meat seller strike
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Food hawkers @Priya school, originally uploaded by A_ndre mobile’s pics.
After the soybean.. now turn to meat to get kicked.. The price was IDR
45.000/kg (USD 5/kg) before end up with IDR 52.000/kg (USD 5.7/kg) in
only few days. The Jakarta Post
reported that the price surge brought hundreds of meat sellers from
Greater Jakarta to protest at the State Palace in Central Jakarta on
Wednesday, demanding the government stabilize rising price.
The protesters urged the government to end monopoly on meat and cattle imports and to lower the price of local and imported cattle. The issue is not as big as the soybean, some warung, meat ball stalls already anticipated this and have enough stocks.
My friend, a purchasing general manager in one of the largest supermarket chain, informed me that they anticipated this issue but the situation is far from such scarcity. Of course, the suppliers don’t want the perishable stocks gone in their freezers. Supermarkets don’t hesitate mark up the price since customers, mostly middle class and higher, at the end have no choice but buy from supermarket. Especially when meat is gone in the wet market. Who cares about monopoly or whatsoever.. or wet market? Wet market has been scraped by big box retailers and expansion of convenience store.. Less and less people really shopping at wet market… Big guys* still get their stomach filled with juicy imported meatloin during their lunch lobby.. no time to feel hunger of the poor..
Its really…. an undisturbed meat seller strikes.
*some friends use this nice words for those whom talk a lot in parliament, but too fat to move down the earth
