Bulog Halts Five Rice Milling Partners in Jakarta Amid SPHP Distribution Enforcement
Bulog terminated five RPK partners in Jakarta, formed a joint supervision task force, and is verifying around 370 public complaints over SPHP rice distribution.
State logistics agency Bulog has terminated the operations of five rice milling partners (RPK) in Jakarta found to have violated distribution rules for the Special Market Rice Operations (SPHP) programme, president director Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani said on 9 November. Licences of partners proven to have committed fraud will be revoked, with reported violations including repackaging SPHP rice for sale as premium product.
Alongside the terminations, Bulog has formed an Integrated Rice Supervision Task Force, combining its internal enforcement unit SPI with the national Food Task Force, and is verifying approximately 370 public complaints. The National Food Agency (Bapanas) noted that the RPK channel is the largest SPHP distribution route, accounting for 23.42 percent of the first government assignment of 828,000 tons.
The enforcement drive follows concerns that rice prices remained elevated despite the full realization of the first SPHP assignment, and supervision is set to continue through the Ramadan 2027 period.