JAKARTA The National Food Agency (NFA) continues to take various steps to control food inflation ahead of Eid Al-Fitr National Holidays and Religions (HBKN). One way is by distributing food aid.
Head of the National Food Agency (NFA) Arief Prasetyo Adi said that in addition to distributing food aid, the government is also aggressively carrying out cheap market activities, and Facilitating Food Distribution (FDP).
"In April, together with the President, we have launched the distribution of Government Rice Reserves (CBP) for rice food assistance. Through this program, Perum Bulog was assigned to distribute rice aid to 21.353 million Beneficiary Families (KPM)," he said in an official statement, Monday, April 17.
Arief said, each KPM will get 10 kilograms (kg) of rice three times for three months, namely March, April, and May.
Furthermore, Arief said, this rice food aid activity had begun in stages on March 31, 2023, until April 15, 2023, 111,492 tons of rice had been distributed.
In addition to rice food assistance, Arief said, NFA has also launched food assistance for chicken meat and chicken eggs for 1.4 million Stunting Risk Kerluarga (KRS).
Just like rice assistance, said Arief, this assistance will also be distributed for the next three months starting April, May, and June 2023. The assistance distributed consists of 1 chicken meat measuring around 0.9-1.1 kg and 1 chicken egg tray or as many as 10 pills.
"For the initial stage before Eid al-Fitr, assistance will be distributed to 78 thousand KRS spread across Central Java, East Java, Banten and West Java. Overall, total aid will be distributed in 7 provinces with 3 other provinces, namely North Sumatra, East Nusa Tenggara, and West Sulawesi," he said.
Arief said the program for distributing rice food aid as well as eggs and chicken meat aims to maintain community food supply while maintaining food price stabilization at the upstream or producer level.
"This food aid program is expected to maintain food supply, meet the nutritional needs of the community, while maintaining price stability in the context of controlling national inflation," he said.
For your information, the next mitigation effort that is routinely carried out by NFA is to control inflation, namely by continuing to intensify the Cheap Food Movement (GPM) and Facilitation of Food Distribution in collaboration with the Regional Government, Food SOEs and the Food Manufacturers Association.
Meanwhile, Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian highlighted the collaborative efforts of local governments in controlling inflation, especially during and after the Idul Fitri HBKN.
"I hope that the strengthening of collaboration and support from the Regional Head to control inflation will continue to be improved by coordinating with various parties," said Tito.
Meanwhile, Indonesia's inflation rate in March 2023 was 4.97 percent or was included in the top 20 countries with the lowest inflation rate from 181 countries.
Deputy for Distribution and Services Statistics, BPS Pudji Ismartini, said that BPS monitors the general pattern of inflation contributors on Eid Al-Fitr. From 2020 to 2022, contributors to inflation on Eid Al-Fitr in food competitions such as rice, chicken meat, broiler eggs, beef, red chilies and cooking oil.
To support data collection in the context of inflation control policies, BPS will implement the Agricultural Census in June 2023 and various series of public consultations will be carried out.
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