Whoops! Vegetable Prices Increasing As Impact Of Fuel Prices In Jayawijaya Papua Rise At Certain Hours

Drums filled with fuel are carried across Lake Paniai upon arrival in West Paniai District, Papua. Later the drums will be distributed to the Kompak gas station there. (ANTARA-Akbar N Guma)

JAYAPURA - The Jayawijaya Regency Government appealed to traders not to increase food prices on the pretext of adjusting the price of fuel oil (BBM). Fuel at the retail level in Jayawijaya rose unilaterally.

Head of the Jayawijaya Manpower, Industry and Trade Agency, Lukas Kossay, said traders should not be affected by the increase in fuel prices because his party will take action against perpetrators who deliberately increase fuel prices.

"The reason is that people who sell at the market also increase prices such as vegetables," he said in Wamena, Jayapura, Papua, quoted from Antara, Sunday, July 31.

To prevent the practice of raising prices without coordination from continuing to grow, the government has appealed to people's markets so that the public obeys.

"We have conveyed an appeal through the rivet car, and will make an appeal through RRI so that special sales for vegetables do not increase market prices," he said.

People increase the selling price of vegetables in the people's market because they argue that the cost of taxis or motorcycle taxis from villages to cities has increased.

Lukas said that the increase in fuel prices only occurred at certain hours so his party experienced difficulties in taking action.

"In this case, the regent's circular, there is a benchmark price of IDR 15,000 to IDR 23,000 and that cannot be changed by traders," he said.