Inflasi Jelang Lebaran Bikin Warga Kesusahan

Data inflasi Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS). Per Maret 2024, inflasi tahunan mencapai 3,05 persen menjelang Lebaran 2024.

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00:00 The consumption of the people at this year's Eid Mubarak can be unusual.

00:05 Consumers, especially middle-class groups, must prioritize shopping.

00:11 The high price of food restricts their purchasing power.

00:16 This condition is reflected in the data of the Statistical Center's inflation or BPS per March 2024.

00:24 The annual inflation reached 3.05%.

00:30 The main contributor to this period of inflation comes from food, drinks, and tobacco

00:36 with a 2.09% share of the total inflation.

00:41 The head of BPS, Amalia Adinigarwidyasanti,

00:47 explained that the reason is the increase in the price of commodities such as rice, chicken, and chicken eggs.

00:56 Other commodities that contributed to inflation are red chilies, garlic, and tomatoes.

01:02 The price of rice itself jumped because of the limited supply.

01:06 Rice production in the country was hampered by El Nino, which caused drought last year.

01:12 BPS recorded continuous rice production from early 2023,

01:18 which reached an average of 4 million tons per month to an average of 1 million tons per month at the end of the year.

01:26 The volume just showed an increase from February last year to 3 million tons per month.

01:32 However, annually, rice production in 2023 was only 31.1 million tons,

01:40 down from 2022, which was 31.54 million tons.

01:48 When inflation jumped, the Vice Director of the Institute for Development of Economic and Finance, or INDEF,

01:55 Eko Listianto, said that the purchasing power of the people, especially the middle class, would be hit.

02:01 In the context of this year's inflation, they are burdened by the high cost of food.

02:09 As a result, this group will curb shopping and services other than food,

02:15 especially secondary and tertiary needs such as automobiles, electronics, and travel.

02:21 Consumption was not as fast as last year.

02:24 Giving holidays or THR can help reduce the purchasing power pressure on the group.

02:31 It means that consumption can still increase.

02:34 For that, Eko estimates that the government needs to maintain the stability of goods and services prices.

02:42 If difficult to do, there must be social guarantees and accessible public areas,

02:48 such as cheap parking areas, cheap toll roads, and affordable recreational vehicles.

02:54 The government states that the efforts to stabilize food groups continue to run to suppress price jumps.

03:01 The head of the Ministry of Finance's fiscal policy body, Febriokacaribu,

03:06 has proposed several strategies, such as market operations, speed of import and export of the highest price of rice.

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