BPS Calls Masks To Electric Cigarettes Included In Calculation Of Inflation 2024

Deputy for Distribution and Services Statistics Pudji Ismartini. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) said that the commodity of masks to e-cigarette equipment is included in the calculation of inflation in 2024, in line with the significant consumption by the public of these various commodities.

"The change in public consumption has led to additional several new commodities in the inflation gauge," said Deputy for Distribution and Services Statistics Pudji Ismartini as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, December 12.

The addition of the new commodities was obtained from the results of the 2022 SBH which were carried out to update the basic year of calculating the 2024 Consumer Price Index (JCI).

In addition to masks and e-cigarette equipment, Pudji added, there are 89 new commodities selected as reference for calculating inflation in 2024, including Integrated Rail (LRT) and Integrated Moda Raya (MRT) rates, hand sanitizers, closed circuit television cameras (CCTV), household natural gas, water heaters, TV receivers, and vape liquids.

On the other hand, there are 77 old commodities that were not re-elected as new commodities for the 2024 inflation tally, including several types of fresh fish, several types of salted fish, emergency lights, TV antenna generator sets (gen sets), CD Video Players (VCD) and Digital Versatile Disk (men), Playstation, organ or piano, magazine, and tabloids.

He said that TV antennas were no longer selected as commodities calculated in inflation because people had now switched to digital TV so that TV receivers replaced TV antennas in inflation components.

Then the playstation is not re-elected because people tend to choose online games today. Likewise with magazines and tabloids that have been replaced by electronic media.

"Untuk konsumsi komoditas yang dihapus memang karena sudah tidak signifikan lagi dalam SBH 2022," ucap dia.

With the change in these commodities, Pudji revealed that there are 847 commodities that will be components of the inflation indicator in 2024, with 758 old commodities re-elected.

This number increased from 835 commodities in SBH 2018 which is the reference for current inflation.