Translated automatically from Indonesian.
In an October 2024 visit report, Iwan from Sumberklidung raised complaints about deductions on sales and subsidized fertilizer.
Sumberklidung Village, Tegalsiwalan District. During a visit by a candidate for regent to the village in October 2024, Pantura7 recorded complaints from a farmer named Iwan regarding subsidized fertilizer. At the same location, farmers also raised the issue of plasi, which is a deduction in weight when shallots are sold.
The 18 percent deduction figure written by that media is a complaint conveyed in that meeting, not an official rate that we verified for all transactions. This story shows the problems discussed by farmers at that time; campaign statements and promises by the regent candidate in the news are not treated as policy outcomes.
Read the Pantura7 report. The cover photo is only an illustration of shallots at a market in Jakarta Utara. Photo: Sakurai Midori / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
