The Price Of Cayenne Pepper Rises Crazy, In Tanimbar Regency Reaches IDR 160.000 Per Kilogram

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Director of Food Supply Stabilization and Price of Badanas, Maino Dwi Hartono said the trend of increasing the price of cayenne pepper had been going on for two weeks.

"This is indeed quite an extraordinary increase in the last two weeks or since early January 2025. This is the price of yesterday's date, Sunday, our record is that in Tanimbar Regency it is Rp. 160,000. Of course, far above the government reference of Rp. 50,000 per kg," he said in a virtual coordination meeting for controlling inflation. 2025 quoted from the Ministry of Home Affairs YouTube, Monday, January 13.

Maino said that the current soaring price of cayenne pepper was due to the decline in chili production in several central areas. This decline in production was also triggered by extreme weather, both high rainfall and strong winds, which caused crop failure.

"So that production or supply to the community or to the market has decreased. Now this certainly has an impact on significant price increases and almost in all regions," he said.

Maino claimed to have held a coordination meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture, related agencies in the regions, farmers and chili commodity businesses to overcome this.

Furthermore, Maino said that in the meeting it had been agreed that the government would help and provide chilies at the price of farmers that could be enjoyed by direct consumers.

"We will pay close attention in the next week, since we are working on a coordination meeting, if this is indeed the price continues to soar, it continues to rise. Of course there are several steps that we take, either through transportation subsidies or food facilitation, to sales through the cheap food movement," he explained.

Previously, it was reported that the price of red cayenne pepper has recently experienced a significant increase in the market. In fact, the type of red cayenne pepper has reached IDR 72,000 per kilogram (kg) at the farmer level.

Chairman of the Indonesian Chili Champion Association (ACCI) Tunov Mondro Atmojo revealed that at the farmer level, the increase in chili prices had only occurred in the last eight days.

"At the farmer level, the price increase has not yet reached two weeks. About eight days. Before that the price was still quite stable, it was still in a reasonable stage," he said when contacted by VOI, Friday, January 10.

Based on data as of January 9, continued Tunov, the price of cayenne pepper or super or grade A at the farmer level is currently IDR 77,000 per kg. As for curly red chilies, super IDR 44,000 per kg.

At the farmer level, at our cooperative, the super ori red chip is Rp. 77,000, and for ordinary red tweets it is Rp. 70,000 to Rp. 72,000. For curly red chilies, which is super, it is Rp. 44,000," he said.