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Bapanas tightens oversight of Central Java rice supply chain to stabilize prices

From Republika · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Indonesia’s National Food Agency is working with police, local governments and Bulog to monitor rice prices, quality and supply in Central Java.
  • The inspections will cover premium, medium and SPHP rice, with targeted prices of 14,900, 13,500 and 12,500 rupiah per kilogram respectively in the region.
  • Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said national rice stocks remain adequate and warned that violators of official price ceilings could face penalties, including business closure.

Indonesia’s National Food Agency, or Bapanas, is tightening control over Central Java’s rice supply chain as it seeks to keep prices, quality and availability stable.

The agency has formed a Rice Price and Quality Monitoring Task Force in cooperation with the central and regional Food Task Force of the Indonesian police, local governments and the state food company Bulog. Bapanas planning, cooperation and public relations chief Rinna Syawal said the effort would monitor the commodity across the entire chain.

The government has begun mobilizing the Rice Price and Quality Monitoring Task Force. This multiparty collaboration initiated by Bapanas involves the Food Task Force of the Indonesian police, both central and regional, along with local governments and Bulog.

· Rinna SyawalThe Bapanas official described the agencies involved in monitoring rice prices and quality.

The inspections will not stop at markets. Joint teams, including the Central Java police’s special crimes directorate and local food, trade, licensing and agriculture agencies, will check producers, distributors, traditional markets and modern retailers.

We will not only be in markets, but also at producers, distributors and modern retailers. For this task, we are focusing on the rice commodity.

· Rinna SyawalShe explained the scope of the inspections.

The task force will monitor premium rice priced at 14,900 rupiah per kilogram, medium rice at 13,500 rupiah and rice distributed through the Food Supply and Price Stabilization program at 12,500 rupiah. Central Java falls within Zone 1 for the price monitoring system.

Bapanas head and Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said fluctuations were not caused by declining stocks. He said national reserves, including government rice reserves used to support intervention programs, remained sufficient. Amran called for firm enforcement, with penalties ranging from warnings to the closure of businesses that continue violating official retail price ceilings.

It is not because of stocks, because there is plenty of rice. Do not forget that farmer welfare is at its highest level in history according to the Farmer Exchange Rate.

· Andi Amran SulaimanThe agriculture minister said supply shortages were not behind rice price fluctuations.
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Originally published by Republika in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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