Commission II DPR Papua Ask PB PON to Use 80 Percent of Local Products

The Chairperson of Commission II DPR Papua for the Economy, Mega MF Nikijuluw, SH asked PB PON Papua that 80 percent of consumption during the implementation of the XX National Sports Week (PON) in 2021 must use local Papuan products.

"I hope that consumption in the implementation of PON XX Papua for PON participants should be 80 percent of food ingredients supplied by local Papuans," said Mega Nikijuluw to a number of journalists after attending the PON XX DPR Papua Special Committee (Pansus) work meeting and PPN XVI. Year 2021 at the Horison Ultima Hotel Jayapura, Tuesday, April 27, 2021.

This is because the PDI-P politician said, this is very important, because the success of PON Papua means the economic success of the people in the Land of Papua. And the impact must also be felt by the people in the Land of Papua.

Moreover, said Mega, the community had actually prepared from a long time ago, starting to plant vegetables, sweet potatoes, other plants as well as meat, fish and others.

So that he hopes that there will always be good coordination and communication between PB PON Papua and Sub PB PON Jayapura City or other areas.

"Yes, including the existing UMKM, both at the provincial and city levels, because this is very important. We have prepared a lot of preparations for SMEs, in the form of PON souvenirs. Therefore, I urge PB PON Papua to see this and coordinate well with Sub PB PON, "he explained.

However, he regretted that when it comes to consumption in this national event, until now there has been no coordination and communication from the Jayapura City PON Sub-PB with the Papua PON PB, in this case consumption preparation for the preparation of XX PON in 2021.

"It turns out that so far there has never been any coordination and communication between PB PON Papua and Sub PB PON Kota Jayapura, so I, as the Chairperson of Commission II DPR Papua in the economic sector, hears it very sadly," he explained.

Because Mega continued, the implementation of PON XX is only a matter of counting the days, so these things, to feed so many people, must be carefully prepared from now on, starting from consumption or foodstuffs to other things.

For this reason, he hopes that in the future there will be good coordination and communication between PB PON and Sub PB PON Jayapura City in preparing consumption.

"Because we see, so I asked the PB PON Papua consumption sector that eating and drinking has criteria and standards, for example fish have criteria. Therefore, I deeply regret that the consumption criteria were not conveyed to venue clusters or regional heads as sub-PB PONs, so that they could provide input to related agencies to prepare in the field of consumption or food ingredients, whether fish, eggs, meat. , vegetables, to fruits and others, "said Mega.

Mega added, if necessary, this information could be conveyed to farmers, fishermen and ranchers so that they could prepare the food ingredients needed for consumption of PON XX Papua later.

SOURCE: https://www.pasificpos.com/komisi-ii-dpr-papua-minta-pb-pon-use-80-persen-produk-lokal/