Tighter Supervision, Rice Prices in Several Areas Experience Decline Strengthening of HET supervision is considered to start effectively putting pressure on consumer rice prices. Rep: Frederikus Dominggus Bata/ Red: Ahmad Fikri Noor

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — The National Food Agency (Bapanas) has recorded a downward trend in rice prices nationally over the past month. This data emerges amid the government's strengthened supervision of strategic staple food prices carried out on large-scale producers and distributors. Bapanas attributes the improvement in price movements to the enforcement of the maximum retail price (MRP) compliance that has been accelerated together with the National Police Food Task Force of the Republic of Indonesia. This step is aimed at ensuring that prices at the consumer level move in accordance with government benchmarks, especially during national religious holidays. The Food Price Panel of Bapanas noted that as of December 30, the price of medium rice in Zone 1 dropped from Rp 13,098 per kilogram to Rp 13,077 per kilogram, or a correction of 0.16 percent. The price of premium rice in Zone 1 decreased from Rp 14,845 per kilogram to Rp 14,838 per kilogram, or a decrease of 0.05 ...