IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPETITION LAW IN COOKING OIL PRICE TRADING FOR PUBLIC INTEREST

: This study discusses the implementation of competition law in the trading system of cooking oil prices for the public interest in Indonesia. Business competition law aims to encourage healthy competition between business actors in the market, including in the cooking oil sector. However, the implementation of this law still faces various challenges, especially related to suboptimal law enforcement and a lack of public understanding of consumer rights in the market. Through a literature study approach, this study discusses the concept of business competition law and its role in encouraging healthy competition in cooking oil price trading. The results showed that the implementation of competition law in cooking oil price trading can provide benefits for the public, such as more affordable prices and better product quality. However, this can only be achieved if the government, business actors, and the community work together to improve understanding and enforcement of business competition law. In conclusion, the implementation of business competition law in cooking oil price trading can have a positive impact on the public interest if carried out properly and optimally. Therefore, an active role from all relevant parties is needed to ensure the successful implementation of this law.


INTRODUCTION
Cooking oil is one of the important needs for households in various countries including Indonesia. Given the high demand, the demand for cooking oil in the community also continues to increase from year to year, this is reinforced by data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS). As an illustration, in March 2022, the average amount of cooking oil used per capita in Indonesia reached IDR 19,108 (nineteen thousand one hundred and eight rupiahs) per month. This is when compared to the same usage in the previous year, namely 2021, which was Rp. 13,008 (thirteen thousand eight rupiahs) on average per month for each in Indonesia. This data shows an increase of approximately 46.89 percent. The most widely used cooking oil is cooking oil from palm oil. In addition, data also shows that household demand for palm cooking oil during the period 2015 to 2020 increased by 2.32 percent (Rahayu, 2022).
The palm oil industry in Indonesia among others produces various products, namely crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernel oil (PKO), derivatives of these two processed oils into daily necessities, ranging from cooking oil, cosmetics, processed food, etc. Given the importance of cooking oil for the basic needs of the daily community, it is necessary to build good trade governance so that there are no price fluctuations, unhealthy business competition, or cartels that harm the public. For this reason, it is necessary to make the best arrangements by the competent authority, in this case, the government. In addition to other basic services such as health, and education, the government must also provide services for other basic needs, namely necessities, and basic needs of the community for example rice, cooking oil, etc. Cooking oil trade arrangements by the government are made in the form of regulations or policies which must then be obeyed by stakeholders in the cooking oil trade which include business actors producing or producing cooking oil, cooking oil distributors, cooking oil traders, and consumers or the public in general. (Fitrah Murgianto, 2021) (Hardiyansyah, 2018).
Given that cooking oil production is related to the palm oil industry, other parties who are also involved in cooking oil trading are industry players or owners of oil palm plantations who are not bene also as owners of cooking oil factories and oil palm farmers either as workers or as land owners.
Cooking oil is one of the important food components for households in Indonesia, so the government includes cooking oil as one of the food needs of certain basic needs, whose availability and price are maintained by the government so as not to fluctuate. Based on the Central Statistics Agency (2022)  is to make agreements between these business actors will be easier to achieve (Nadapdap, 2019).   For this reason, a tracing process is needed for each stage of the distribution channel.
However, KPPU recommends that not only the cooking oil industry be controlled, but also its palm oil production" KPPU also provided information that from the results of its deepening, it is necessary to conduct an audit upstream, namely in the plantation sector. Currently, there are the 70s