Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) invites millennials to eat cassava

Published 2022년 8월 24일

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Bank Indonesia's Governor, Perry Warjiyo, has proposed changing people's habits and focusing on food security to stabilize soaring food prices. He suggested switching from rice to other commodities like cassava to reduce the problem. The bank estimates that core inflation and inflation expectations could rise due to increased prices for non-subsidized fuel oil and volatile food inflation, with overall inflation for 2022 projected at 5.2% and core inflation at 4.15%. To combat this, BI has increased its interest rate to 3.75% in August 2022.
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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - Governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) Perry Warjiyo revealed the key to stabilizing food prices which are soaring. "Pricing stabilization is actually how to change the mindset of the people," said Perry at the XXII ISEI Plenary Meeting in Semarang, Central Java, Wednesday (24/8/2022). "How do you eat spring rolls without cayenne pepper, iso ora?" asked Perry. In addition to changing people's habits, Perry reminded of another step, namely food security. One of the things that the BI Governor highlighted was rice. "Rice is the problem with millennials now or we really reduce rice, but switch to wheat, eat bread. Why not switch to cassava, cassava?" Therefore, he hopes that the agricultural sector can develop food security by returning to basic commodities, such as cassava and so on. BI estimates that core inflation and inflation expectations are at risk of rising due to rising prices for non-subsidized fuel oil (BBM) and volatile food inflation, as well as ...

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