Indonesia: It's said that the Covid-19 situation is under control; have the food prices started to increase?

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Indonesia's inflation rate is still slow, indicating sluggish demand. The limited activity and mobility of the community causes demand to remain limited. Bank Indonesia (BI) in the Price Monitoring Survey up to week III estimates inflation in August 2021 at 0.04% compared to the previous month (month-to-month/mtm). If this materializes, there will be a slowdown compared to July 2021 inflation of 0.08% mtm. Meanwhile, calendar year inflation (year-to-date/ytd) was 0.85% and annual inflation (year-on-year/yoy) was 1.6%. "The main contributors to inflation in August 2021 until the third week are cooking oil commodities at 0.03% (mtm), tomatoes at 0.02% (mtm), broiler eggs and filtered kretek cigarettes each at 0.01% (mtm). Meanwhile, several commodities experienced deflation, including cayenne pepper by -0.05% (mtm), red chili by -0.02% (mtm), kale, spinach, mustard greens, long beans, oranges, gold jewelery and intercity transportation, respectively -0.01% ...