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Thu, 02/04/2010 - 14:14
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C JAVA GOVT URGED TO INTERVENE IN RICE MARKETS
Semarang, Indonesia, Feb 4 (ANTARA) - Central Java's Legislative Assembly (DPRD) has urged the regional government to immediately conduct market operations to stabilize fluctuating rice prices in the province.
A spokesman for the assembly's Commission B, M Haris, said on Thursday rice prices in Central Java had risen by at least 20 percent and therefore market operations were urgently needed.
"The price of rice with medium quality, consumed by most of the people in the province, has soared by about 20 percent," said the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) politician.
The market operations were needed to stabilize the rice prices at local markets and make them affordable to consumers, he said.
"Rice prices continue to rise here and therefore we want the Central Java administration to intervene in the local rice markets," Haris said.
The State Logistics Agency (Bulog) had a sufficient rice stock to conduct the market operations, Haris said.
He said the market operations were an effort to stabilize the rice prices while waiting for Bulog to distribute the rice with medium quality to low-income people in the province.
"To speed up the rice distribution to poor people is also one of the ways to stabilize the prices of the commodity," Haris said, adding however that the mechanism to do so was entirely up to the district heads and mayors to determine.
Haris said the decision to distribute rice to the poor had to be made by the respective district heads and mayors, and therefore he said, while waiting for the decision, the market operations should be conducted soon.
Meanwhile, the government has expressed hope that the current increases in the rice price in various parts of the country would not boost inflation.
Of late, rice prices in various regions have been showing an upward trend but according to the agriculture minister, food supply during the few first months of 2010 was basically still secure.***
A spokesman for the assembly's Commission B, M Haris, said on Thursday rice prices in Central Java had risen by at least 20 percent and therefore market operations were urgently needed.
"The price of rice with medium quality, consumed by most of the people in the province, has soared by about 20 percent," said the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) politician.
The market operations were needed to stabilize the rice prices at local markets and make them affordable to consumers, he said.
"Rice prices continue to rise here and therefore we want the Central Java administration to intervene in the local rice markets," Haris said.
The State Logistics Agency (Bulog) had a sufficient rice stock to conduct the market operations, Haris said.
He said the market operations were an effort to stabilize the rice prices while waiting for Bulog to distribute the rice with medium quality to low-income people in the province.
"To speed up the rice distribution to poor people is also one of the ways to stabilize the prices of the commodity," Haris said, adding however that the mechanism to do so was entirely up to the district heads and mayors to determine.
Haris said the decision to distribute rice to the poor had to be made by the respective district heads and mayors, and therefore he said, while waiting for the decision, the market operations should be conducted soon.
Meanwhile, the government has expressed hope that the current increases in the rice price in various parts of the country would not boost inflation.
Of late, rice prices in various regions have been showing an upward trend but according to the agriculture minister, food supply during the few first months of 2010 was basically still secure.***
