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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